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We can go a step beyond Euler's method keeping up to second order
terms in the expansion around . Doing so we obtain
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from (1) we get
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Substituting in (5) we obtain
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where all the functions and derivatives are evaluated in .
Adrian E. Feiguin
2004-06-01