Amplitude increasing in the verlet method in backward difference

Question

I am facing trouble in the increasing oscillation on a simple harmonic oscillator using a backward difference. here is my code in Scilab

function [x] = back(h, tf)
k = 2;
m = 1;
i = 2;

t(i - 1) = 0;
x(i - 1) = 10;
v(i - 1) = 0;
t(i) = t(i - 1) + h
v(i) = v(i - 1) - h * (k / m) * x(i - 1)

while t(i) < tf
    t(i + 1) = t(i) + h
    x(i + 1) = x(i - 1) - 2 * (k / m) * v(i) * h
    i = i + 1
end

plot(t, x, 'b');

endfunction

Answer 1

From your code, I suppose that you are trying to implement the velocity-Verlet scheme. Here is its implementation for a simple oscillator with the differential equation:

function [x] = back(h, tf)
  k = 2;
  m = 1;

  t = 0:h:tf;
  x(1) = 10;
  v(1) = 0;

  for i=2:length(t)
    x(i) = x(i - 1) + v(i - 1) * h - k / m * x(i-1) * h^2 / 2;
    v(i) = v(i - 1) - k / m * (x(i) + x(i-1)) * h / 2;
  end

  plot(t, x, 'b');
endfunction

[x] = back(0.01, 10)