If a system consists of five particles, how many terms appear in the expression for the total

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If a system consists of five particles, how many terms appear in the expression for the total potential energy? How many terms appear if the system consists of N particles?
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Vector Mechanics for Engineers Statics and Dynamics

ISBN: 978-0073212227

8th Edition

Authors: Ferdinand Beer, E. Russell Johnston, Jr., Elliot Eisenberg, William Clausen, David Mazurek, Phillip Cornwell

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