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Virial theorem and translational invariance

According to the virial theorem,

$$\left\langle T\right\rangle =-{\frac {1}{2}}\,\sum _{k=1}^{N}{\bigl \langle }\mathbf {F} _{k}\cdot \mathbf {r} _{k}{\bigr \rangle }$$
where ##N## is the number of particles in the system and ##T## is the total kinetic energy. It is often claimed that this...

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