What would best describe 'stiffness' in engineering systems described by ODEs? Stiff ODEs includes terms rapidly changing (with respect to the independent variable) and slowly changing ones. Stiff ODE systems have problems to be solved when including more than 2 equations Stiff ODEs have the flexibility to be solved with the Newton-Raphson method. O Stiffness refers to the lack of ability to make use of boundary conditions. 2 pts
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