[gmx-users] Electric potential over the membrane

[David]

On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 11:45, Itamar Kass wrote:
>     Why the calculation is done over the membrane alone?  As I understand 
> it, there is no start point to the electric fields, hence the and it spread 
> all over the box, hence the calculation should inclose all the box (I have 
> bilayers of DMPC between two water layers).

it *is* done over the whole box. You have a field E and each particle
with a charge q feels a force F = q E (F and E are vectors of course).
However, I just assumed you are interested in a potential over the
membrane, rather than the potential over the whole box.

>                 Kass.
> 
> 
> At 11:35 AM 11/22/2003, you wrote:
> >On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 11:23, Itamar Kass wrote:
> > >     I have periodic boundary, and the size of the box is
> > > ~6.2*6.2*6.7.  Follow from your explain I understand I have to write E_z =
> > > 1  15  0.0 the results potential will be 15mV/nm*6.7nm=~100mV?
> >except for a factor 1000, the unit is V/nm, so it should be 0.015
> >
> >Take care however that you should calculate the potential over your
> >membrane, not the box, so again for a 3 nm membrane with 100 mV you'd
> >want to use
> >
> >1 0.033 0.0
> >
> >
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