Thanks, I'll tackle my way through those links.

Christoph Hormann wrote:

> Tim Nikias wrote:
> >
> > I'm not sure if this belongs into "general" questions,
> > but its not advanced-users-pov-stuff either, and
> > not purely off-topc for POV...
> >
> > I've been hearing a lot about Forward Euler,
> > Implicit Euler, Runge-Kutta, second- and
> > third-order terms and what not.
> >
> > I have no clue what all those are.
> > [...]
>
> To understand it you need some background information about differential
> equations and numerical mathematics.  You probably could use such
> algorithms without knowing the whole math behind, but for understanding
> some knowledge is definitely required.  Any general book about higher
> mathematics should contain a bit on that matter but there are also a lot
> more specialized books too.
>
> Some links from searching on google for runge kutta:
>
> http://nacphy.physics.orst.edu/ComPhys/DIFFEQ/mydif2/node1.html
> http://www.sst.ph.ic.ac.uk/angus/Lectures/compphys/node2.html
> http://www.learn-line.nrw.de/angebote/modell/runge.htm
> http://www.myphysicslab.com/what_diff_eq.html
>
> Christoph
>

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