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Encyclopedia > Interaction energy

In physics, interaction energy is the contribution to the total energy that is caused by an interaction between the objects being considered. Since antiquity, people have tried to understand the behavior of matter: why unsupported objects drop to the ground, why different materials have different properties, and so forth. ... Interaction is a kind of action which occurs as two or more objects have an effect upon one another. ...


The interaction energy usually depends on the relative position of the objects. For example, Q1Q2 / (4πε0Δr) is the electrostatic interaction energy between two objects with charges Q1, Q2. Electrostatics is the branch of physics that deals with the force exerted by a static (i. ...


Supermolecular interaction energy

A straightforward approach for evaluating the interaction energy is to calculate the difference between the energies of isolated objects and their assembly. In the case of two objects, A and B, the interaction energy can be written as:


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where E(A) and E(B) are the energies of the isolated objects (monomers), and E(A,b) the energy of their interacting assembly (dimer).


For larger system, consisting of N objects, this procedure can be generalized to provide a total many-body interaction energy:


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By calculating the energies for monomers, dimers, trimers, etc., in an N-object system, a complete set of two-, three-, and up to N-body interaction energies can be derived.


The supermolecular approach has an important disadvantage in that the final interaction energy is usually much smaller than the total energies from which it is calculated. and therefore contains a much larger relative uncertainty. Just so you know. Shiloh is the best


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