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Homework Statement
When I put the this code into Mathematica, it fails to plot all of the points... there are some missing points, so i decided to also tell it to display the table so I can look at the values, but some are not defined, and it puts something like y[0.95], y[0.35] or y[0.] instead. Also, I am having another problem with the scaling... it is labeling 0.05 as 1, 0.10 as 2, and so on, on the graph.
And if it helps, this Code is supposed to approximate the solution of y'=-ty+4t/y when 0<= t <= 1, where y(0)=1 and the step size h=0.05 using Runge-Kutta method of order 4. And then I need it to plot the graph using the data that I obtained.
Homework Equations
The Attempt at a Solution
Here is my code that I put into Mathematica
Code:
w = 1; h = 0.05; t = 0; y[0] := 0;
While[t < 1, k1 = h ((-t) (w) + (4 t)/w);
k2 = h (-(t + h/2) (w + k1/2) + (4 (t + h/2))/(w + k1/2));
k3 = h (-(t + h/2) (w + k2/2) + (4 (t + h/2))/(w + k2/2));
k4 = h (-(t + h) (w + k3) + (4 (t + h))/(w + k3));
w = w + (1/6) (k1 + 2 k2 + 2 k3 + k4); t = t + h; y[t] = w];
datapts = Table[y[t], {t, 0, 1, 0.05}];
Print[datapts];
ListPlot[datapts]
The output for the table is:
Code:
{y[0.],1.00374,1.01482,1.03283,1.05718,1.08709,1.1217,y[0.35],1.20149,y[0.45],1.28981,1.33533,1.38093,1.42611,1.47042,y[0.75],y[0.8],y[0.85],y[0.9],y[0.95],y[1.]}
And this is what the graph looks like:
http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/941/problem5.gif [Broken]
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