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Codex  0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03

For a confined system,

G (t)

stays bounded, so its long-time averaged derivative is zero. The preceding identities give the virial theorem

2 ⟨ T ⟩ = - ⟨ V ⟩ .

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