Subject: numerical solutions to differential equations
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:40:46 -0700
On 2/23/07, richard noel fell <fell at brandeis.edu> wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. Two more questions. Am I correct in assuming that
> maxima as of yet does not have a mechanism to return an interpolating
> function as the numerical solution to an ode?
None that I know of.
About the rk function, it was introduced after 5.9.3. (If you have time
you might try to encourage the maintainer of the Maxima package
for Ubuntu to update the package ....) You can get the code (2 files) here:
http://maxima.cvs.sourceforge.net/maxima/maxima/share/contrib/dynamics
and the documentation here:
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/docs/manual/en/maxima.html
Hope this helps,
Robert Dodier