What are the effects of higher derivatives in the slow-motion approach?

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Hello i didn,t understand the slow motion approach of course i know that:

\frac{\partial f }{\partial x^{0}}\sim \epsilon \frac{\partial f }{\partial x^{a}} according to this approach with epsilon<<<1 small parameter for every smooth function my doubts are.

a)what would happen to higher derivatives of f with respect to time and spatial coordinates?..x,y,z ?

b)If we only want effect upto first order in epsilon parameter then..what would happen to:

\nabla ^{2}f (Laplacian)

(1,1,1)*Gra(f) (scalar product involving the gradient)

or if we had \epsilon div(f) would it mean that the only term that should be kept is df/dt if we consider effects only to first order?..

thanks.:redface: :redface: :redface:
 
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