The Copperbelt University

School of Mathematics and Natural Science

Mathematics Department
MA310 - Engineering Mathematics II
2022 - 2023 Academic Year
Test 2 June 2023
Duration: 2 Hours Total Marks: 60

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Clearly write your SIN and Program.
2. Read all questions carefully before attempting.
3. There are Three (3) questions in this paper, answer all.
4. Distribution of marks is shown for all the parts of the questions.
5. Show all your working. No marks will be awarded for the final answer only.
6. This is a closed book examination. No course material is allowed in the examination
room.
7. If two or more different solutions are provided for a given question, no marks shall
be awarded.
8. No Integral Tables, Calculators or Formulas should be Provided in this examination.
1. (a) Sketch the waveform defined by:
0, when 0  x  2
fx  3, when  2  x  2
0, when 2  x  4

and is periodic outside ofthisrange of period 8.

State, justifying your answer, whether the waveform in (a) is odd, even or neither
odd nor even.
[3 Marks]
(b) Deduce the Fourier series for the function defined in (a).
[7 Marks]
(c) Derive the Fourier cosine and sine integrals of fx  e ax , where x  0 and a  0.
[10 Marks]
[Total  20 Marks]
2. (a) Expand the function ft  t in the range 0  t   into half - range sine series
[6 Marks]
(b) Deduce from the Fourier series of fx  x  x 2 that
 2  1  1  1  1  .
2 22 32 42
[8 Marks]
(c) Find the Fourier cosine Transform of the following function:
sin x, for 0  x  
fx 
0, otherwise

[6 Marks]
[Total  20 Marks]
3. A rectangular waveform is shown in Figure below

Figure 1

(a) State, justifying your answer, whether the waveform is an odd or even function.
[1 Mark]
(b) Obtain the Fourier series for the waveform in complex form.
[6 Marks]
(c) Show that the complex Fourier series in (b) is equivalent to:

fx  20 1 1 1
 sin x  3 sin 3x  5 sin 5x  7 sin 7x  
[6 Marks]
(d) Find the Fourier integral representation of the given function:
0, when x  0
fx  cos x, when 0  x  
0, when x  

[7 Marks]
[Total  20 Marks]
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