= Two-stage Runge-Kutta family with an implicit second stage
{title2=$R(z)=\frac{1+(1-a)z+(1/2-a)z^2}{1-az}$}
For stages $k_1=f(y)$ and $k_2=f(y+(1-a)hk_1+ahk_2)$ with update $y+h(k_1+k_2)/2$, the method has order two for every fixed real $a$. The third-order coefficient of $f''f^2$ is always $1/4$, not $1/6$, so no parameter gives third order on general nonlinear equations. The displayed <stability function> is bounded throughout the left half-plane only when $a=1/2$, when it is the A-stable trapezoidal function $(1+z/2)/(1-z/2)$. It is not L-stable.
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