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Homework Statement
Use the Heun method to compute the period of small oscillations about the equilibrium position of a nitrogen atom.
xi = 1.1
Um = 7.37
x0 = 1.2
alpha = 2.287
m = 2.325e-26
Homework Equations
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U(x) = Um((1-e^(-alpha(x-x0)))^2 - 1)
The Attempt at a Solution
I was told to take the derivative of dU/dx and got (-1/m)*(2*Um*alpha*(1-e**(-alpha*(x-x0)))*(e**(-alpha*(x-x0)))) and used that to calculate my heun step with a time step of 0.5e-15. With this I get a graph that looks like this: