Hi,
check this extract...
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.......Amber internally uses lengths in angstroms, masses in atomic mass
units, and energies in kcal/mol. This means that the unit of time is
1/20.455 ps. Since the set of units is internally consistent, you should be
able to compute the kinetic energy in the "normal" fashion:
KE(in kcal/mol) = 1/2 sum mv**2
where the masses are in amu and the velocities are from the program.
Note, however, that the velocities stored in the restart file are the
velocities at a time 0.5(dt) before the time of coordinate (since a
"leap-frog" integration scheme is being used. When amber actually prints
kinetic energies, it estimates the velocities at the current time [by
averaging those at t - 0.5(dt) and t + 0.5(dt)]. So your kinetic energies
won't exactly match those printed unless you do something equivalent.
VDW parameters: R* is in Angstroms, epsilon in kcal/mol. .....
http://amber.ch.ic.ac.uk/Questions/units.html________________________
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regards
Satish Kumar.M
Bioinformatics Group,
National PARAM Super Computing Facility Bldg
Centre for Devlopment of Advanced Computing,
Pune,India.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yuguang Mu" <ygmu.theochem.uni-frankfurt.de>
To: <amber.heimdal.compchem.ucsf.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 9:03 PM
Subject: unit of output velocity
> Dear all,
> Who knows the unit of output velocity in AMBER6 ?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Dr. Yuguang Mu
> Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
> J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
> Marie Curie Str. 11
> 60439 Frankfurt/Main, Germany
> Tel: +49-(0)69-798-29711
>
Received on Fri Jun 06 2003 - 17:53:01 PDT
