Does the Poisson Equation Have a Unique Solution with Mixed Boundary Conditions?

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My professor told that poission equation has a unique solution even for mixed boundary conditions( i.e. Dirichlet bc for some part and Neumann for the remaining part). But how is this possible? As different boundary conditions for the same problem will give different solutions.
 
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ajeet mishra said:
My professor told that poission equation has a unique solution even for mixed boundary conditions( i.e. Dirichlet bc for some part and Neumann for the remaining part). But how is this possible? As different boundary conditions for the same problem will give different solutions.
It has a unique solution for each specified set of boundary conditions.
 
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Chestermiller said:
It has a unique solution for each specified set of boundary conditions.
But how? As there are unique solutions for drichlet and neumann conditions separately and these, in general, may not be consistent.