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Foil 8 Second and Higher Order Equations

From CPS615-Discussion of Ordinary Differential Equations and Start of Parallel N-Body Algorithm Delivered Lectures of CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- 10 October 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox *
Secs 92.1
1 Second order equations such as
2 can always be rewritten as a system of 2 first-order equations involving X and a new variable Y representing the first order derivative:
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