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Education 2

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INTRODUCTION

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Figure 4: Plotting E-1 versus time step for the unperturbed pendulum. The initial conditions are q0 = π/2, p0 = 0, and we have calculated 600 time steps each of size .02. If the calculation conserved energy perfectly, E would be exactly one.

a. Third-order Runge-Kutta.

b. Fourth-order Runge-Kutta.

c. Symplectic algorithm (fourth-order accurate).


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