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Foil 26 Solving the N-body equations of motion

From Fox Presentation Fall 1995 CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- 1998 Enhancements. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 Introduce 3 vectors X V A for position,velocity and acceleration of particles
2 Numerical techniques iterate equations over time using Runge Kutta (in our detailed example) or more simply:
  • Euler's Equation which gives:
  • X(t+dt) = X(t) + h * V(t)
  • V(t+dt) = V(t) + h * Grav(X(t))
3 Note i labels particles not time steps
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