Hey, again, thanks for the response. Maybe with all this programming that I've been doing over these past few years my applied math skills have become warped and corrupted in some sense so please forgive me. Anyway, I still can't see from what you posted how I am supposed to handle f(t(n), y(n))...
Hey, thanks for the response. To address your comments, I have read the wikipedia article and I do understand that the gravitational acceleration needs to be computed at every time step. I guess my problem before was that I was trying to use the RK4 method to approximate velocity when I should...
Hey, thanks for the reply. To address your comment, I do understand that the acceleration is dependent on the total forces acting on one body divided by the bodies mass and this is how I am calculating the acceleration for each body in my simulation. I guess I really just don't have a good...
Hey guys,
I'm working on this n-body planetary system simulation and I was just wondering if anyone was familiar enough with the Runge-Kutta(RK4) approximation method that they understood how to apply it to approximating the velocity and position of a planet as it orbits around some central...