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Recall the definition of the Helmholtz free energy: I was tripped up over the weekend by trying to numerically integrate the above expression exactly and was fumbled by a subtle change of coordinates issue. Suppose we have a 2-D 3 atom system with three atoms A, B, C, whose configuration space is defined such that… Read more