Question: Consider the one - dimensional heat transfer problem seen in class with the same boundary conditions. In this case, we need to discretize our problem

Consider the one-dimensional heat transfer problem seen in class with the same boundary conditions.
In this case, we need to discretize our problem into 4 elements of equal length. Thus, 5 points will define the temperature for the entire domain (x1, x2, x3, x4, x5) with x5=L. Consider the same shape functions seen in class such that i(xi)=1 and i(xi+1)=0 and vice versa i+1(xi)=0 and i+1(xi+1)=1.
1.- Obtain the approximation of the temperature in each element using the finite element method by Galerkin.
a) Obtain the assembled matrix of the elements
b) Find the solution to the variables ai, i={1,...,5}
Consider the one - dimensional heat transfer

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