Euler Method - Differential Equations

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Approximate for with time steps and .

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Approximate for with time steps and .

The formula for Euler approximations .

Plugging in, we have

Here we can see that we've gotten trapped on a horizontal tangent (a failing of Euler's method when using larger time steps). As the function is not dependent on t, we will continue to move in a horizontal line for the rest of our Euler approximations. Thus .

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