<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 10:29, Vitaly Chaban <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chaban@univer.kharkov.ua">chaban@univer.kharkov.ua</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">> could you explain my the secret of choosing to time step for md<br>> integrator?</div></blockquote>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The secret is, to have the timestep small enough so that you could "truly" say between two consecutive steps the forces are linear, and to have it large enough so the computation would be feasible.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Other then that, look at the previous answers you got for a more "hands on" approach. You might also want to read about integrating MD.</font></p>
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<div>--Omer Markovitch.</div></div></div>