2014-04-01 6:40 GMT-06:00 Steven Neumann <[email protected]>:
> Dear Votca Users,
>
> Maybe a trivial question but do not know where to find the answer: Why the
> histograms are volume normalized distributions for angles, bonds and
> dihedrals? I mean equations 2.13 in manual. Can someone please explain this?
> Why for bond it is 4*PI*r^2, for angles SIN (theta) and for dihedrals
> nothing comes?
First of all for the IBI update the normalization cancels out, but for
the PMF (initial guess) it is important.

In the example of a bond, the number of states scales with r**2 as the
volume of the sphere in which the bond with a fixed distance live
scales with r**2.
The argument is the same as why you need a volume element when
switching from a Cartesian to a spherical coordinate system.

Hope that helped,

Christoph

>
> Thank you,
>
> steven
>
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