Research Article

3-Point Block Methods for Direct Integration of General Second-Order Ordinary Differential Equations

Table 1

Result of the test problem (1).

Explicit max. error Implicit max. error

0.01 5.12 𝐸 0 7 6.55 𝐸 1 4
0.005 6.30 𝐸 0 8 2.12 𝐸 1 3
0.0025 7.81 𝐸 0 9 1.78 𝐸 1 3
0.001 4.95 𝐸 1 0 9.43 𝐸 1 3
0.0005 5.52 𝐸 1 1 8.00 𝐸 1 2
0.00025 1.15 𝐸 1 1 1.77 𝐸 1 1