Physics 5403 - Computational Physics: Molecular Dynamics

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Our chapter on molecular dynamics is partially based on the MD Primer by Furio Ercolessi

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Section Title
6.0 Overview
  Classical MD vs. ab-initio MD
6.1 Basic machinery
6.2 Verlet algorithm
6.3 Geometry and boundary conditions
6.4 Starting and controlling the simulation
6.5 Observables I
  Observables II
6.6 Correlations in real and momentum space
6.7 MD as an optmization tool