Other problems 179
where a, d and <p satisfy the approximation conditions (18) of Section 2.
First, we consider the simplest approximation of the boundary con-
dition at the point x = 0: a 1 Yx,l = {3 1 y 0 - μ 1 and calculate the error of
approximation by inserting y = z + u:
We obtain
through the approximations
a 1 - _ k 0 + 2 l h kI 2)
0 + O(h ,
Substituting here (ku')~ = q 0 u 0 - f 0 emerged from equation (1) we find
that
V 1 =! h (q 0 u 0 - f 0 ) + O(h^2 ),
thereby justifying that the boundary condition
provides an approximation of order 2 on the solution u(x) of problem (1).
In a similar manner we derive the difference boundary condition of second-
order approximation at the point x = 1:
In this way, the third kind difference boundary-value problem (2)-( 4) of
second-order approximation on the solution of the original problem is put
in correspondence with the original problem ( 1).
- A problem with periodicity conditions. First, we study the elementary
problem in which it is required to find on the segment 0 < x < 1 a solution
to the equation
(5) tt^11 (x)- q 0 u = -f(x), q 0 = const > 0, 0 < x < 1,
satisfying the condition of periodicity
(6) u(x + 1) = u(x) forall xE(0,1).
Here f(x) is a periodic function of period 1: f(x + 1) = f(x).