Hey thanks for the response.
Is it the Linear momentum that should be conserved in this case?
For the 3-body system example that I gave, the forces only cancels when r_ij and r_ik are the same or when all the three atoms are not connected in a triangle.
When all the three atoms are...
Hello,
I was just searching online and discovered this great forum. Please I need help in sorting out a problem with a non-central potential and Newton third law.
This is not a physics homework problem. I'm a graduate student working on this equation as a reserch project and there are...