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Old 05-23-2007, 08:17 AM   #25
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Originally Posted by Jadon
Then constrain your particles. If your particles are twice as long as they're wide, and are in cells slightly larger than them, they're only going to rotate on their long axis, never flip end over end. A three-sided prism, with a positive-charged flat-face and a negative charge opposite, on the line between the other two long faces, will rotate as you want. Two charge sites beneath can make it rotate as desired.
You're right, but this doesn't change the number of options. You get one effective rotation axis either way.

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