Lecture 5 of Numerical methods for differential equations (CTB2400)

• The following subjects are discussed:
  
  
  • stability of non-linear differential equations
  • truncation error for the test equation
  • Comparison of Euler Forward and Euler Backward
  • Runge Kutta method
    
    
  Corresponding pages in the book: pages 75-86. The lecture is also available via collegerama.
  
  
• Historical remarks
  
  
• Easy exercises of Chapter 6.
  
  
• Exercises 6 and 7 of page 99 can be made ( answers)