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Kinetic energy
The instantaneous kinetic energy is of course given by
and is therefore extremely easy to compute. We will call
K
its average on the run.
Furio Ercolessi
9/10/1997
![\begin{displaymath}
K(t) = \frac{1}{2} \sum_i m_i [v_i (t)]^2 \end{displaymath}](img62.gif)