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Add materials on how to check if your model behaves as expected

Open moorepants opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

When I develop models I check various intermediate steps with known (simple) input/output pairs. Once the simulation can run you can then make it do very simple simulations to see it behaves as expected. It would be nice to have a chapter that shows how to do this for a medium complexity problem.

moorepants avatar Feb 08 '23 11:02 moorepants

To me, looking at the total energy of the system has helped me many times. It is simple to do, and of course only a necessary condition for the equations to be right.

Peter230655 avatar Feb 08 '23 12:02 Peter230655

The energy chapter gives a example of this with the jumper (although that wasn't my goal there).

moorepants avatar May 30 '23 13:05 moorepants