Physics education research, electronic materials, and the musings of Christopher Moore, Ph.D.

There isn't a first-order definite integral, but are there any accurate ways of numerically integrating?  Every source I've read about blasts out the message "there's no solution" but there exist numerical methods that can be arbitrarily accurate, right?

Secondary thought:  I'm into programming and know Calc II - III level math.  I'd really like to write a simulation in C# (I do C and C++ but I'm working with C# right now) that can draw accurate trajectories using some kind of numerical solution.  Any outside chance a physics/math whiz could break down into simple algebra the functions that are needed here?

Thanks!

Last edited by Cogitation (2012-01-18 03:46:22)