<spanid="index-0"></span><h1>compute erotate/sphere/atom command<aclass="headerlink"href="#compute-erotate-sphere-atom-command"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<h2>Syntax<aclass="headerlink"href="#syntax"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<divclass="highlight-python"><divclass="highlight"><pre>compute ID group-ID erotate/sphere/atom
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<li>ID, group-ID are documented in <aclass="reference internal"href="compute.html"><em>compute</em></a> command</li>
<li>erotate/sphere/atom = style name of this compute command</li>
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<h2>Examples<aclass="headerlink"href="#examples"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<divclass="highlight-python"><divclass="highlight"><pre>compute 1 all erotate/sphere/atom
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<h2>Description<aclass="headerlink"href="#description"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Define a computation that calculates the rotational kinetic energy for
each particle in a group.</p>
<p>The rotational energy is computed as 1/2 I w^2, where I is the moment
of inertia for a sphere and w is the particle’s angular velocity.</p>
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<pclass="first admonition-title">Warning</p>
<pclass="last">For <aclass="reference internal"href="dimension.html"><em>2d models</em></a>, particles are treated
as spheres, not disks, meaning their moment of inertia will be the
same as in 3d.</p>
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<p>The value of the rotational kinetic energy will be 0.0 for atoms not
in the specified compute group or for point particles with a radius =
0.0.</p>
<p><strong>Output info:</strong></p>
<p>This compute calculates a per-atom vector, which can be accessed by
any command that uses per-atom values from a compute as input. See
<aclass="reference internal"href="Section_howto.html#howto-15"><span>Section_howto 15</span></a> for an overview of
LAMMPS output options.</p>
<p>The per-atom vector values will be in energy <aclass="reference internal"href="units.html"><em>units</em></a>.</p>
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<divclass="section"id="restrictions">
<h2>Restrictions<aclass="headerlink"href="#restrictions"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<div>none</div></blockquote>
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<divclass="section"id="related-commands">
<h2>Related commands<aclass="headerlink"href="#related-commands"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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