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Probably a symplectic Verlet method instead of Euler or Runge-Kutta, since you want energy and momentum to be conserved in this simulation.

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I was going to link to the article about sympletic integration, but it's toooo technical. This other article explains the problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_drift

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