Exercises
Fourier series
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1. Square wave with amplitude 2
Find the Fourier series of the -periodic extension of
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2. Step function with nonzero mean
Find the Fourier series of the -periodic extension of
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3. Cosine-only series of π − |x|
Find the Fourier series of the -periodic extension of , .
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4. Fourier series of a trigonometric polynomial
Find the Fourier series of without computing any integral.
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5. Rescaled sawtooth wave
Find the Fourier series of the -periodic extension of , .
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6. Fourier series of (x − 1)²
Find the Fourier series of the -periodic extension of , .
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7. Sum of the series at jump points
Let be the -periodic extension of
Find, without computing the coefficients, the sum of the Fourier series of at and at .
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8. Convergence of the series of the exponential
Let be the -periodic extension of , . Find, without computing the coefficients, the sum of the Fourier series of at and at .
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9. Leibniz series from the square wave
Find the Fourier series of the -periodic extension of
and, by evaluating it at , compute the sum of the numerical series .
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10. Parseval for the series Σ 1/n⁶
Given that the -periodic extension of , , has Fourier series
compute with Parseval’s identity the sum of the series .
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11. Sawtooth wave with period 4
Find the Fourier series of the -periodic extension of , .
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12. Absolute value with period 2
Find the Fourier series of the -periodic extension of , , and determine whether the convergence is uniform on .
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