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Differential equations describe a wide variety of physical phenomena, however not all systems of differential equations can be solved analytically. Thus, numeric approximations fill an important void, providing us with methods to model and analyse physical systems when analytic tools fall short.
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Izaac, J., Wang, J. (2018). Differentiation and initial value problems. In: Computational Quantum Mechanics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99930-2_5
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