UNIVERSITY OF MALTA FACULTY OF SCIENCE Department of Mathematics Engineering-1 Problem Sheet 5

(1) Find the Fourier series expansion of the function f (x) = |x| over the interval [1, 1]. (2) Draw a sketch of the periodic function f (x) dened by 0 for 2 x < 1, f (x) = 1 for 1 x 1, 0 for 1 < x 2, and, f (x + 4) = f (x) for all real numbers x. Find the Fourier series of f (x). (3) Show that if f is piecewise continuous and periodic with period 2 , then Parsevals identity holds: 1

a0 2 (an 2 + bn 2 ). {f (x)} dx = + 2 n=1

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(You may assume that the processes of summation and integration may be interchanged in this case.) (4) Expand F (x) = sin x, for x ]0, [, in a Fourier cosine series. (5) (a) Find the Fourier series expansion of the function f (x) = |x| over the interval [2, 2]. (b) Write down Parsevals identity corresponding to the Fourier series of (a). (c) Determine from (b) the sum S of the series 1 1 1 1 + 4 + 4 + + 4 + ... . 14 2 3 n