i have an error at line 13 xi1 and below it. how to correct it for runge kutta method

function [y1] = RK21(x0, y0, h, f)
%RK21.m apply one step of the explicit RK2 method
% with Butcher Tableau: 
% 0
% 2/3 2/3
%     1/4   3/4
%
% xi1 = yk
% xi2 = yk + a21*h*f(xk + c1*h, xi1)
% yk+1 = yk + h( b1*f(xk+c1*h, xi1 ) + b2*f(xk+c2*h, xi2)
xi1 = 0;
xi2 = y0 + 2/3*h*f(x1/4+1/4*h, xi3/4); 
y1 = y0 + h*( 1/4*f(x1/4+1/4*h, xi3/4) + 3/4*f(x1/4+2/3*h, xi2 ));

[Jan]

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Answer 1

[nick]

Hi Alec,

As Jan mentioned, kindly describe the error you encountered. I assume that the error is Unrecognized function or variable because the equations for computating xi2 and y1 utilize xi3, which hasn't been defined in the function workspace.You'll need to define xi3 before you can compute xi2 and y1 within the function.

Hope this helps.