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Preface to the Second Edition | |
Preface to the First Edition | |
Electric charges and their properties | |
Point Charges | |
Coulomb's Law | |
Pair wise additivity | |
The Electric Field | |
Work | |
Charge distributions | |
The mutual potential energy U | |
Relationship between force and mutual potential energy | |
Electric Multipoles | |
The electrostatic potential | |
Polarization and Polarizability | |
Dipole polarizability | |
Many-body forces | |
Problem Set | |
The Forces between Molecules | |
The Pair Potential | |
The multipole expansion | |
The Charge-Dipole interaction | |
The dipole-dipole interaction | |
Taking account of the temperature | |
The Induction energy | |
Dispersion energy | |
Repulsive contributions | |
Combination rules | |
Comparison with Experiment | |
Improved pair potentials | |
A Numerical potential | |
Site-site potentials | |
Problem Set | |
Balls on Springs | |
Vibrational Motion | |
The Force Law | |
A simple diatomic | |
Three Problems | |
The Morse Potential | |
More Advanced Potentials | |
Molecular Mechanics | |
More about balls on springs | |
Larger systems of balls on springs | |
Force fields | |
Molecular Mechanics (MM) | |
Modelling the solvent | |
Time-and-Money-saving tricks | |
Modern Force Fields | |
Some commercial force fields | |
The Molecular Potential Energy Surface | |
Multiple Minima | |
Saddle Points | |
Characterization | |
Finding Minima | |
Multivariate grid search | |
Derivative methods | |
First Order Methods | |
Second Order methods | |
Choice of Method | |
The Z matrix | |
The end of the Z matrix | |
Redundant Internal Coordinates | |
Molecular Mechanics Examples | |
Geometry Optimization | |
Conformation Searches | |
Aminoacids | |
QSAR | |
Problem Set | |
Sharing out the energy | |
Games of Chance | |
Enumeration | |
The Boltzmann Probability | |
Safety in Numbers | |
The Partition Function | |
A two-level quantum system | |
Lindemann's Theory of Melting | |
Problem Set | |
Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics | |
The Ensemble | |
The Internal Energy Uth | |
The Helmholtz energy A | |
The entropy S | |
Equation of state and pressure | |
Phase space | |
The Configurational Integral | |
The Virial of Clausius | |
Monte Carlo Simulations | |
Introduction | |
An Early Paper | |
The First "Chemical" Monte Carlo Simulation | |
Importance Sampling | |
The Periodic Box | |
Cutoffs | |
MC Simulation of Rigid Molecules | |
Flexible Molecules | |
Molecular Dynamics | |
The Radial Distribution function | |
Pair correlation functions | |
Molecular Dynamics Methodology | |
Algorithms for time dependence | |
Molten Salts | |
Liquid Water | |
Different Types of Molecular Dynamics | |
Uses in Conformational Studies | |
Introduction to quantum modeling | |
The Schr_dinger equation | |
The time-independent Schr_dinger equation | |
Particles in potential wells | |
The Correspondence Principle | |
The two-dimensional infinite well | |
The three-dimensional infinite well | |
Two non-interacting particles | |
The Fi | |
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