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PHYS2004: Wave Phenomena (PHYS2008: Fourier Methods)

Fourier Series Problem Sheet

n.b. The questions marked with a ? are more challenging. They are not conceptually difficult, but
the maths is quite long-winded, so you’ll need to do the calculations carefully to get the right an-
swer.

1. Are the following functions periodic? If so what is the period?


a) f (θ) = cos θ
b) f (t) = cos (ω0 t)
c) f (t) = exp (iω0 t)
d) f (x) = x2
e) f (t) = sin (3ω0 t)
f) f (t) = cos (ω0 t) + 14 sin (3ω0 t)
g) f (t) = cos (ω0 t) + sin (πω0 t)

2. Write down (without doing any calculations) the coefficients of the trigonometric Fourier series
of the function in 1f.

3. Write down (without doing any calculations) the coefficients of the complex Fourier series of
the function in 1f.

4. Are the following functions even, odd or neither?


a) f (x) = sin (x2 )
b) f (x) = cot x
c) f (x) = x + x4
d) f (x) = x2 + cos x

5. A function is defined as f (x) = 1 − x in the range 0 < x < 1. Sketch the analytic continuations
of the function outside this range which are:
i) periodic with period L = 1,
ii) even with period L = 2,
iii) odd with period L = 2.

6. Two voltage signals are observed to have the form:


1
V1 (t) = 3 cos (t/3) + cos t + cos (2t) ,
2
1
V2 (t) = 3 cos (t/π) + cos t + cos (2t) .
2
In each case:
a) Is the signal periodic?
If so:
b) What is the period?

1
c) Sketch the coefficients of the trigonometric Fourier series.

7. Use trig identities to re-write each of the expressions below in the form of a linear combina-
tion of exp (iω0 t), exp (−iω0 t) and their harmonics exp (irω0 t), exp (−irω0 t) (i.e. in the form
Σr cr exp (irω0 t)):
a) cos (ω0 t)
b) cos (2ω0 t)
c) 2 cos (ω0 t) sin (ω0 t)
d) cos2 (ω0 t)

8. A train of rectangular pulses of height h centered at t = 0 has a pulse width equal to 1/4 of the
pulse period T . Show that the 4th, 8th, 12th etc. harmonics are missing.

9. The function f (x) is periodic with period L and given by f (x) = exp (αx) for 0 ≤ x ≤ L,
where α is a real positive constant.
a) Sketch this function.
b) Calculate the complex Fourier coefficients cr .
c) Is this function odd, even or neither?
d) What does this tell us about the trigonometric Fourier series coefficients, ar and br ?

10? . Show that the Fourier series of the odd analytic continuation of the function
(
2h
x if 0 < x ≤ l/2 ,
f (x) = 2hl
l
(l − x) if l/2 < x ≤ l ,

is given by      
8h πx 1 3πx
f (x) = 2 sin − sin + ... .
π l 9 l
(we’ll use this result in Fourier 12).

11? . A sawtooth function with period T is defined as

f (t) = |t| for − T /2 ≤ t ≤ T /2 .

a) Calculate the coefficients cr of its exponential Fourier series. Hint: you’ll need to consider the
positive and negative t integrals separately.
b) The trigonometric Fourier series of f (t) from part a) has coefficients

T
a0 = .
2
(
− πω40 r2 ir r is odd ,
ar =
0 otherwise .
br = 0 .

2
Verify that the general relationships

a0 = 2c0 ,
ar = cr + c−r ,
br = i(cr − c−r ) ,

are valid in this case.


c) Calculate the average over a period of |f (t)|2 directly (by integrating). Then use Parseval’s
theorem to show that ∞
X 1 π4
= .
j=1
(2j − 1)4 96

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