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UNIT 1: FOURIER SERIES

PART A Questions

Compiled by P.Venugopal/Dept of Mathematics/SSNCE

1. State Dirichlets conditions.

2. Does f (x) = tan x possess a Fourier expansion?

3. Examine whether the function f (x) = sin
1
x
, n x n can be expanded as a Fourier
series.

4. Find the constant term in the Fourier series corresponding to f (x) = x
2
cos expressed in
the interval ) , ( .

5. If f(x) is discontinuous at x = a, what value does its Fourier series represent at that point?

6. Find b
n
in the expansion of x
2
as a Fourier series in ) , (

7. If f (x) is an odd function defined in (, ), what are the values of o
0
and o
n
?

8. If f (x) = x
2
+ x is expressed as a Fourier series in the interval ( 2, 2), to which value this
series converges at x = 2?

9. If the Fourier series of the function
2
) ( x x x f + = in the interval < < x is
, sin
2
cos
4
) 1 (
3
1
2
2

+
n
nx
n
nx
n
n

then find the value of the infinite series

+ + +
2 2 2
3
1
2
1
1
1
. . . .

10. In the Fourier expansion of f(x) =

< <
< < +

0 ,
2
1
0 ,
,
2
1
x
x
x
x
in ) , ( , find the value of bn?
11. If the Fourier series for the function



2 ; sin
0 ; 0 ) (
< < =
< < =
x x
x x f

is x
x x x
x f sin
2
1
...
7 . 5
6 cos
5 . 3
4 cos
3 . 1
2 cos 2 1
) ( +

+ + + + =


deduce that .
4
2

7 . 5
1
5 . 3
1
3 . 1
1
. . .

= +


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12. Find a Fourier sine series for the function f (x) = 1; 0 < x < .
13. Determine
n
b in the Fourier series expansion of f(x) =
1
2
(n -x) in 0 < x < 2 with period
2.
14. Find a
n
in expanding c
-x
as Fourier series in ) , ( .

15. What is the constant term a
0
and the coefficient of cosnx, a
n
in the Fourier series
expansion of f (x) = x x
3
in ) , ( .
16. Find the Fourier coefficient b
n
for x sin x in ) , (
17. Write down the odd and even extension of f(x) in ( , 0) if f(x) = x
2
+x in (0, ).
18. Without evaluating any integral, write the half range sine series for f(x) = sin
3
x in (0, n).
19. If f (x) = ]
cosx
Su

if u < x < n
if n < x < 2n
and f (x) = f (x + 2n) for all x, find the sum of the Fourier
series of f(x) at x = n.

20. Define |x| in ) , ( .

21. Find the constant term in the Fourier expansion of f (x) = |cosx| in ) , (

22. To which value, the half range sine series corresponding to f (x) = x
2
expressed in the
interval (0, 2) converges at x = 2?

23. Find the value of a
n
in the cosine series expansion of f(x) = K in the interval (0, 10).

24. Define root mean square value of a function f(x) in a < x < b.

25. Find the root mean square value of the function f (x) = x in the interval (0, ).

26. State Parsevals Theorem on Fourier series.
27. If the Fourier series corresponding to f (x) in the interval (0, 2n) is
u
0
2
+ {o
n

1
cos nx +
bnsinnx] without finding the values of a
0
, a
n
, b
n
find the value of ( )

+ +
1
2 2 0
2
n n
b a
a
.
28. State Parsevals identity for full range expansion of f(x) as Fourier series in ( 0, 2 )

29. State Parsevals identify for the half-range cosine expansion of f(x) in (0, 1).

30. If x = 2j
snx
1
-
sn2x
2
+
sn3x
3
- [in 0 < x < n, prove that
1
n
2
=
n
2
6
.

31. Find the coefficient C
n
in the complex Fourier series of f (x) = c
-x
, 1 < x < 1.

32. What do you mean by Harmonic Analysis?
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