Lintégration de Verlet est un schéma d'intégration qui permet de calculer la trajectoire de particules en simulation de dynamique moléculaire. Cette méthode offre une meilleure stabilité que la plus simple méthode d'Euler (créée au ), de même que d'importantes propriétés dans les systèmes physiques, telles que la réversibilité dans le temps et la conservation de propriété. À première vue, il peut sembler naturel de calculer les trajectoires en utilisant la méthode d'Euler. Cependant, ce type d'intégration souffre de nombreux problèmes.
In engineering, shear strength is the strength of a material or component against the type of yield or structural failure when the material or component fails in shear. A shear load is a force that tends to produce a sliding failure on a material along a plane that is parallel to the direction of the force. When a paper is cut with scissors, the paper fails in shear. In structural and mechanical engineering, the shear strength of a component is important for designing the dimensions and materials to be used for the manufacture or construction of the component (e.
In mathematics, a continuous function is a function such that a continuous variation (that is a change without jump) of the argument induces a continuous variation of the value of the function. This means that there are no abrupt changes in value, known as discontinuities. More precisely, a function is continuous if arbitrarily small changes in its value can be assured by restricting to sufficiently small changes of its argument. A discontinuous function is a function that is .