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Trapezoidal rule for set of data
Here is the question from the book of Mark Newman-Computational Physics Exc 5.1
a) Read in the data and, using the trapezoidal rule, calculate from them the approximate distance traveled by the ...
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Simulating a two-body collision problem to find digits of Pi
I came across a nice video on 3Blue1Brown's channel that highlights a very indirect way to find the digits in Pi. I'd suggest watching the whole video, but briefly:
The setup is as above. A "small" ...
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1D shock tube problem written in Fortran
I have written a simple Euler solver for the 1D shock tube problem. Eventually, I plan to extend this code to solve the full 3D compressible Navier-Stokes equations. Therefore, I want to start with ...
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Solving an ODE numerically with forward Euler method
The goal is to solve an ODE numerically with forward Euler method. The programs works well (numerical solution really near analytical one). The problem I see is that the Euler scheme don't jump to ...
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