I have been thinking about this and think you should hyphenate first-order and second-order. Therefore, it would read ' first- and second-order ' in your earlier text. In the case of second-order IVPs, the boundary of the absolute stability region in the H1-H2 plane is traced by substituting w=1,2 and w=sinx+cosx into the stability polynomial obtained.
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