Programme Course Code Name of the Course L T P C

FOURIER ANALYSIS AND STATISTICS
BE (Common to AERO, AUTO, MECH, EEE and
16MA3103 3 1 0 4
E&I)

1. Introduce Fourier series analysis which is central to many applications in engineering.

2. Solve boundary value problems by applying Fourier series.
3. Acquaint with Fourier transform techniques used in wide variety of situations.
Course
Objective 4. Provide the necessary basic concepts of some statistical methods
5. Manipulate different kinds of problems occurring in engineering and technology by applying the
design of experiments.

Instructional
Unit Description
Hours
FOURIER SERIES
I Dirichlet’s conditions - General Fourier Series – Odd and Even Functions 12
-Half range sine and cosineseries – Change of Interval - Parseval‟s Identity- Harmonic analysis
BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS
Classification – solution of one dimensional wave equation –one dimensional heat equation – st
II eady 12
state solutions of two dimensional heat equations (excluding insulated edges) – Fourier series soluti
on in Cartesian coordinates.
FOURIER TRANSFORMS
III Fourier Transform Pairs-Fourier sine and cosine transforms-Properties-Transforms of Simple 12
functions – Convolution Theorem – Parseval’s identity.
TESTING OF HYPOTHESIS
Large sample test based on Normal distribution for single mean and difference of means, Tests based
IV on t - means and variances (single mean and difference of means) , F distribution - for testing 12
difference of variances , Chi-Square test for Contingency table (Test for Independency) – Goodness
of fit.

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS
V 12
One way and two way classifications - Completely randomized design – Randomized block design –
Latin square design.
Total Instructional Hours 60
CO1: Understand the mathematical principles of Fourier series which would provide them the ability to
formulate and solve some of the physical problems of engineering.
CO2: Acquire the knowledge of application of Fourier series in solving the heat and wave equations.
Course
CO3: Express the information from discrete data set through numerical differentiation.
Outcome
CO4: Acquire skills in analyzing statistical methods.
CO5: Have a clear perception of the statistical ideas and demonstrate the applications of these techniques to
problems drawn from industry, management and other engineering fields.
TEXT BOOKS:
T1 - Veerarajan. T., ”Transforms and Partial Differential Equations”, Tata McGraw Hill Education Pvt. Ltd.,
Second reprint, New Delhi, 2012.
T2 - Gupta, S.C., & Kapoor, V.K., Fundamentals of Mathematical Statistics, Sultan Chand & Sons, 
Reprint 2011.

REFERENCE BOOKS :
R1 – C. Roy Wylie “ Advance Engineering Mathematics” Louis C. Barret, 6th Edition, Mc Graw Hill
private Limited, New Delhi 2003.
R2 - Kandasamy P., Thilagavathy K. and Gunavathy K.,”Engineering Mathematics Volume III”, S.Chand &
Company Ltd., New Delhi, 1996.
R3- Walpole. R.E., Myers. R.H., Myers. S.L., and Ye. K., "Probability and Statistics for Engineers and
Scientists", 8th Edition,Pearson Education,Asia,2007.