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Are the forces always calculated in cartesian coordinates?
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<div class="">Specifically, when the positions are given in “crystal” coordinates, are the forces in</div>
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<div class="">Thank you.</div>
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<div class="">…Murray Daw</div>
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-- <br class=""><br class="">Giovanni Cantele, PhD<br class="">CNR-SPIN<br class="">c/o Dipartimento di Fisica<br class="">Universita' di Napoli "Federico II"<br class="">Complesso Universitario M. S. Angelo - Ed. 6<br class="">Via Cintia, I-80126, Napoli, Italy<br class="">e-mail: <a href="mailto:giovanni.cantele@spin.cnr.it" class="">giovanni.cantele@spin.cnr.it</a><br class="">Phone: +39 081 676910<br class="">Skype contact: giocan74<br class=""><br class="">ResearcherID: <a href="http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-1951-2009" class="">http://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-1951-2009</a><br class="">Web page: <a href="http://people.na.infn.it/~cantele" class="">http://people.na.infn.it/~cantele</a><br class="">

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