A GLOBAL ELGHTH ORDER SPLINE PROCEDURE FOR A CLASS OF BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS

Boundary value problems are common in nature. Here we restrict our attention to the second order differential equations of the form $$ (1.1) \frac{d^2 y}{dx^2} = P(x)y(x) + Q(x), 0 \leq x \leq 1, $$ $$ y(0) = \alpha, $$ $$ y(1) = \beta, $$ where P(x) and Q(x) are continuous functions with $P(x) \geq 0, x \in [0, 1]$.