A second-order linear differential equation with continuous periodic coefficients is solved exactly in terms of elementary functions. Equations of this type arise commonly in several areas of physics, and the solutions may find practical applications. As an illustration, the results are applied to the problem of an electron in a one-dimensional periodic potential.
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Lee W. Casperson (1984) studied this question.
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