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GLS #1: Consider a square bar with a length of 27.5 cm and cross-sectional dimensions of 2.5 cm X 2.5 cm. One end is kept at a constant temperature of 25 °C while the opposite side of the bar is kept at 100 °C. There is a uniform heat generation within the bar with a magnitude of 3000 W/m³. Solve for the temperature distribution over the length of the bar both analytically and numerically. For the numeric solution, use a total of 12 nodes (including the boundary nodes) that are uniformly spaced along the bar. The thermal conductivity of the material is 0.35 W/m-K. Compare the numeric and analytic solution by plotting T(x) for both solutions on the same graph. The analytic solution should be plotted as a line with no symbols and the numeric solution should be plotted as only points at the node locations, with no lines.