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This document contains the assignment questions from the Department of Mathematics at the National Institute of Technology Warangal. The assignment covers Fourier series and related concepts. It includes 21 questions asking students to identify properties of functions, determine if functions are periodic, expand various functions as Fourier series, evaluate Fourier coefficients, graph partial sums, and apply Dirichlet conditions. Overall, the assignment provides practice with key ideas in the Fourier analysis of periodic functions over various intervals.

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Fourier Series Assignment

This document contains the assignment questions from the Department of Mathematics at the National Institute of Technology Warangal. The assignment covers Fourier series and related concepts. It includes 21 questions asking students to identify properties of functions, determine if functions are periodic, expand various functions as Fourier series, evaluate Fourier coefficients, graph partial sums, and apply Dirichlet conditions. Overall, the assignment provides practice with key ideas in the Fourier analysis of periodic functions over various intervals.

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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY WARANGAL

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
MATHEMATICS-III
Instructor: Dr. Ch. Ramreddy

Assignment I

Fourier Series
1. Are the following function even, odd, or neither even nor odd?
a) | x |, x 2 sin nx, x + x 2 , e |x| , ln x, x cosh x
b) sin x 2 , sin 2 x, x sinh x, | x 3 |, e x , xe x , tan 2 x, x /(1 + x 2 )
2x
1 + , x 0
c) f ( x) =
1 2 x , 0 x

2. Define Periodic function. Also, determine whether the following functions are periodic and , if so,
find the periods
a) f ( x) = sin (2t ) + 3
d) f ( x) = cos t + cos 2 t
1
1
1
b) f ( x) = cos 3 t
e) f ( x) = sin x + sin 3 x + sin 5 x + sin 7 x
3
5
7
c) f ( x) = sin (2t ) + cos t

( )

3. Expand f ( x) = 1 cos x , 0 < x < 2 in a Fourier series. Hence evaluate


1
1
1
+
+
+ ..........
1.3 3.5 5.7
1
1
4 x, 0 < x < 2
4. Expand f ( x) =
as a Fourier series of Sine terms.
x 3 , 1 < x < 1

4 2
0 , x 0
1
1
1
1

+
...... = ( 2).
5. Find the Fourier series of f ( x) =
. Deduce that to
1.3 3.5 5.7
4
sin x , 0 x
6. The intensity of an alternating current after passing through a rectifier is given by

I sin x if
i ( x) = 0
if
0

0 x

x 2

where I0 is the maximum current and the period is 2 Express i(x)

as a Fourier series. Hence find the sum of

1
1
1
+
+
+ ..........
1.3 3.5 5.7

1
7. Find the Fourier series of periodic function f(x) of period 2, where f ( x) =
2 x

1 1 1
1
1
1
1
2
Hence prove that (a) 1 + + .... =
and (b) 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + .... =
.
3 5 7
4
8
1
3
5
7
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if 1 < x < 0
if 0 < x < 1

8. The input to an electrical circuit that switches between a high and a low state with time period 2
1 if x < 0
can be represented by the boxcar function f ( x) =
. The periodic expansion of
0 x <
1 if
this function is called the square wave function. More generally, the input to an electrical circuit that
switches from a high to a low state with time period T can be represented by the general square wave
1 if T / 2 x < 0
function f ( x) =
with the following formula on the basic period. Find the
0 x <T /2
1 if
Fourier series of the square wave and the general square wave. Then use them to graph the first,
second and third partial sum of the Fourier series and compare with the graph of f(x).
9. Find the Fourier series to represent the function f ( x) = x sin x, x . Hence find the value of

1
1
1

+
........
1.3 3.5 5.7
10. Find the Fourier series of the triangular wave function defined by f ( x) =| x | for 1 < x < 1 and
f ( x + 2) = f ( x) for all x. For which values of x is f(x) equal to the sum of its Fourier series?. Also,
show its first, second partial sums graphically.
11. Sketch the wave form of the periodic function defined by f ( x) = x for < x < and
f ( x + 2 ) = f ( x) for all x. Hence, show that f(x) equal to the sum of its Fourier series. Also, show its
first, second partial sums graphically.
1
4
12. Show that, if 1 x 1 , then x 2 = + ( 1)n 2 2 cos(nx ) . Hence, by substituting a specific
3 n =1
n
2

1
value of x, show that 2 =
.
6
n =1 n
n +1

4 ( 1)
13. Show that cos ax =
sin a 2 + 2
cos(nx ) if x and a Z .
2

n =1 n a
2a

2a

( 1)n+1

nx
sin
if l x l and a Z .
a l
l
n =1
x
15. Find the half range cosine and sine series of f ( x) = sin in 0 x l .
l
if < x < 0
. Hence find the value of the
16. Expand f(x) in a Fourier series, where f ( x) =
0< x <
x if
1 1
1
1
series 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + .....
1 3
5
7
f ( x) = x + if x and
17. Find the Fourier series of Sawtooth Wave function
f ( x + 2 ) = f ( x) . Also, verify it graphically by considering different sums.
14. Show that sin ax = sin al

n
2

2 2

L
2k
0< x<
L x,
2 .
18. Find the two half-range expansions of the function f ( x) =
2k ( L x), L < x < L
L
2
19. Obtain the Fourier series expansion of f ( x) = e ax in ( , ) and (0, 2 ) .
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20. A sinusoidal voltage f (t ) = E sin t is passes through a half-wave rectifier which clips the negative
T

when
<t <0
0 ,
2
portion of the wave. Develop the resulting periodic function f (t ) =
E sin t , when 0 < t < T

2
and T =

in Fourier series.

21. Write the Dirichlet conditions for the existence of Fourier series of the function.

Identify the

corresponding function for the graphs given below. Hence find the corresponding Fourier series in
respective intervals.

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

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