[gmx-users] units of potential energy??

[David]

On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 18:46, Vivek Raut wrote:
> i ran the simulation & got the *.edr file. After processing it with
> the "g_energy" command,  i got the *.xvg file containing the potential
> energy of the system at every time step. But the unit given is   "E
> (kJ mol\S-1\N)". what does that term mean??  & what shld be the unit
> of energy instead?
> 
> i am getting the energy values as :   159848416.000000  ""E (kJ
> mol\S-1\N). Given the size of my system as  around 9000 atoms, its
> this value logical?
Unit is kJ/mol (for the whole system). 150GJ/mol sounds excessive..

> 
> 
> thanks.
> 

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Groeten, David.
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