From c82ffdb99a70f9b41b5d1cc129cb704f9f0fcd01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ralfulrich <ralf.ulrich@kit.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 10:41:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] more docs
---
corsika/modules/tracking/TrackingLeapFrogCurved.hpp | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/corsika/modules/tracking/TrackingLeapFrogCurved.hpp b/corsika/modules/tracking/TrackingLeapFrogCurved.hpp
index 66bc8136f..0dc06ca41 100644
--- a/corsika/modules/tracking/TrackingLeapFrogCurved.hpp
+++ b/corsika/modules/tracking/TrackingLeapFrogCurved.hpp
@@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ namespace corsika {
* two-step leap-frog algorithm, but with analytically exact geometric
* intersections between leap-frog steps and geometric volumes
* (spheres, planes).
+ *
+ * Note that leap-frog times and length always reflect the actual properties of
+ * the final step. The internal steplength is slightly shorter, because the second
+ * halve steps of the algorithm is slightly longer than the first one (in principle
+ * violating |v|=const).
*/
class Tracking : public Intersect<Tracking> {
--
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