[gmx-users] Force Constants and Unit Systems
Lara Bunte
lara.bunte at yahoo.de
Thu May 17 18:25:07 CEST 2012
Hello
I never had contact with such units. Could you please help me and explain me how to transform following units:
1.)
kcal / mol --> kJ / (mol * nm^2)
2.)
kcal / (mol * rad^2) --> kJ / (mol * rad^2)
I have additionally some question to that: Both should be units of a force constant. From Hooke's law F = -kx follows for me, that the unit of a force constant is Newton N over distance m, in S.I. units kg/sec^2 (mass over time square).
What is the correspondence between above from Hooke's law and that units of force constants in molecular dynamics simulations?
Thanks for helping me
Greetings
Lara
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