of these anomalies is of course zero. The natural measure of such anomalies is the square root of their average square. Now
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identically. Accordingly
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In like manner,
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Hence
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Equation (206) shows that the value of
can never be negative, and that the value of
or
can never be positive.
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To get an idea of the order of magnitude of these quantities, we may use the average kinetic energy as a term of comparison, this quantity being independent of the arbitrary constant involved in the definition of the potential energy. Since
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In the case discussed in the note on page 54, in which the potential energy is a quadratic function of the 's, and independent of the 's, we should get for the potential energy
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and for the total energy
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We may also write in this case,
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