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How to solve the system of two second order differential equations?:

x''(t)=f(x',x,y',y,t),\qquad y''(t)=g(x',x,y',y,t)

Is there any numerical method, algorithm?

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The usual trick is to write this system as a first-order one by setting U=(U_1,U_2,U_3,U_4)=(X,Y,X',Y') and getting U'=(U_3,U_4,f(U_3,U_1,U_4,U_2,t),g(U_3,U_1,U_4,U_2,t)) = F(U,t) Then you can use any of the several goods numerical methods, such as Runge–Kutta.

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    What it means? In handbook of Abramovits there is RK method only for system of 2 first order diff equations.2011-05-27