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The simplest source of ODEs in physics is classical mechanics, so we
choose such a problem. The dynamics of a charge in a magnetic field is
described by the equation
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(1.43) |
where
and
are the mass and charge of the particle respectively,
is the magnetic field and
represents some sort of
friction.
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