Solution to the Problem of a Mass Traveling on a Taut String via Integral Equation

Figure 2

Comparison between the integral approach (black lines) and the Galerkin approach (gray lines), when and ; : (a), (c), (e) and ; (b), (d), (f) and . The symbols and denote and , respectively.

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