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The Laplace equation.

  The final basic PDE we will consider governs steady heat conduction in a plate of length $\ell$ and height h such as shown in figure 12. In this example, one half of the boundary of the plate is being kept at 100 degrees Centigrade and the other half at zero.


  
Figure 12: Heat conduction in a plate.
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