[gmx-users] Why some dihedrals have multiple parameters

[Justin Lemkul]

On 12/30/13, 12:45 PM, David Saez wrote:
> Hi friends
>
>   I have been building a topology and I found that some dihedrals have
> multiple parameters. Can someone tell me why is that? I imagine they should
> be used when you need to account for multiple terms in a Fourier
> representation, but I'm about to write a report and I'm not quite sure now.
>

Multiple functions can be applied to a single dihedral, such that the functional 
form is the sum of all of them.

-Justin

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