NUMERICAL METHODS

Ordinary Differential Equations

Differential equations arise frequently in many problems in
mechanics, physics, chemistry, engineering, economics,
etc. Although many differential equations can be solved
analytically but a great number of them cannot be solved.
However, the solution of these equations can usually be
found numerically.
The general form of an nth order ordinary differential
equation is
y n  f ( x, y, y, y,..., y n 1 ) (1)
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Euler Method
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y  f ( x, y), y( x0 )  y0 ...........(1)
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Example
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Modified Euler Method

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Runge-Kutta Methods
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RK-Methods conti….

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