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  Re: But *how* to do the constant energy solution for particle physics?  
From: Lutz-Peter Hooge
Date: 29 Feb 2004 17:37:27
Message: <404269a7$1@news.povray.org>
Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:

> BTW, here's a demo of several different integrators and orbit types:
> http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/astro/galaxy/Galaxy.html

Seems to be quite buggy though. Switching between integrators gives 
inconsistent results: sometimes earth escapes the sun with RungeKutta4
at warp=500 (I guess it is really using Euler then), sometimes it is
stable as expected.
Not very good conditions for comparing the integrators.

Lutz-Peter


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