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  2. Fourth, fifth, and sixth derivatives of position - Wikipedia

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    The higher-order derivatives are less common than the first three; [1] [2] thus their names are not as standardized, though the concept of a minimum snap trajectory has been used in robotics and is implemented in MATLAB. [3] The fourth derivative is referred to as snap, leading the fifth and sixth derivatives to be "sometimes somewhat ...

  3. Numerical differentiation - Wikipedia

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    The classical finite-difference approximations for numerical differentiation are ill-conditioned. However, if is a holomorphic function, real-valued on the real line, which can be evaluated at points in the complex plane near , then there are stable methods.

  4. Differential calculus - Wikipedia

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    Calculus is of vital importance in physics: many physical processes are described by equations involving derivatives, called differential equations. Physics is particularly concerned with the way quantities change and develop over time, and the concept of the " time derivative " — the rate of change over time — is essential for the precise ...

  5. Finite difference method - Wikipedia

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    The method is based on finite differences where the differentiation operators exhibit summation-by-parts properties. Typically, these operators consist of differentiation matrices with central difference stencils in the interior with carefully chosen one-sided boundary stencils designed to mimic integration-by-parts in the discrete setting.

  6. Numerical methods for ordinary differential equations - Wikipedia

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    First-order means that only the first derivative of y appears in the equation, and higher derivatives are absent. Without loss of generality to higher-order systems, we restrict ourselves to first-order differential equations, because a higher-order ODE can be converted into a larger system of first-order equations by introducing extra variables.

  7. Euler method - Wikipedia

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    When given the values for and (), and the derivative of is a given function of and denoted as ′ = (, ()). Begin the process by setting y 0 = y ( t 0 ) {\displaystyle y_{0}=y(t_{0})} . Next, choose a value h {\displaystyle h} for the size of every step along t-axis, and set t n = t 0 + n h {\displaystyle t_{n}=t_{0}+nh} (or equivalently t n ...

  8. Newton's method in optimization - Wikipedia

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    Newton's method uses curvature information (i.e. the second derivative) to take a more direct route. In calculus , Newton's method (also called Newton–Raphson ) is an iterative method for finding the roots of a differentiable function f {\displaystyle f} , which are solutions to the equation f ( x ) = 0 {\displaystyle f(x)=0} .

  9. Quotient rule - Wikipedia

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    In calculus, the quotient rule is a method of finding the derivative of a function that is the ratio of two differentiable functions. Let () = (), where both f and g are differentiable and ()