NOTE:
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| DESCRIPTION:
In this simulation, ten positively charged particles
interact in two dimensions inside a pentagon-shaped
box via the classical Coulomb force and the quantum
mechanical Pauli force. The mutual repulsion felt by
the charges compels them to maximize the distance between
each other. In this case, maximal separation puts them
at the corners of the pentagon and at the halfway points
along the sides that connect them.
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