Does it matter how you define the error in a numerical solution??
If you define the error as numerical solution - exact solution would you be hugely wrong even if you understood what was happening (i know it's the negative of exact - numerical). I wrote a report at uni and realized i defined...
a flexible but inextensible chain having uniform mass density is suspended between two points (of course not vertically aligned). Find the shape of the equilibrium of the chain.
The chain will settle down to a position of minimal potential energy. Let the suspending points be (a,y(a)) and...