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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jun 06 2011 - 21:45:08 CDT

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On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 22:10 -0400, Sally Fisher wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I am using the Dipole Monitoring Visualization tool in the VMD GUI and
> am having trouble interpreting the vector direction. Does the vector
> point from negative to positive?

yes, that is correct.

you can easily verify this, if you select
a single water molecule for drawing a dipole.
the arrow should (almost) centered on the oxygen
atom and point towards the hydrogen atoms.

axel.

>
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Sally
>
>
> Sally Fisher
> Department of Chemistry
> University of Richmond, VA 23173

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Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.

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