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The correct way is to average the source term which you can do easily in this case as you have a polynomial. In general you can do the average with a quadrature. For second order accuracy if the source term is smooth as in your case, you can also just evaluate it at the cell center, which is like mid-point quadrature. It should not matter much in your ...
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The finite difference scheme also gives exact solution at the nodes to the problem $-u''=1$ because
$$
\frac{u_{j-1} - 2 u_j + u_{j+1}}{h^2}
$$
is exact for a quadratic function.
For the more general case
$$
-u''(x) = f(x)
$$
if you compute the integral $(f,\phi_i)$ exactly in $P_1$ FEM, it gives exact solution at the nodes. The FD scheme will not be exact ...
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