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Advanced Calculus - Fall 2024 - Assignment 2 Due 6pm on September 20

You are allowed to discuss assignments with other students and with the instructor. However,
you should write your solutions by yourself and with your own words. On your copy,
indicate the name of your collaborators, or write “no collaborator” if you worked by
yourself.

Exercise 1. (10pts) Let f be a function defined on the open interval (−2, 2) by f (x) = x.
Compute the Fourier coefficients, and the Fourier series of f on the fundamental interval
(−2, 2).
Exercise 2. (10pts) Let f , g be functions defined on the open interval (−π, π). Let h be
defined on the open interval (−π, π) by h(x) = 3f (x) − g(x). Let f˜, g̃ and h̃ be the Fourier
series of f , g and h respectively. Express h̃ in terms of f˜ and g̃ (justify your answer in terms
of Fourier coefficients).
Exercise 3. (15pts) For each of these functions, indicate if it is piecewise continuous on the
interval (−1, 1). If it is not piecewise continuous, explain why not.
√
a) f (x) = x if x > 0 and f (x) = 1 if x ≤ 0.
1
b) f (x) = |x| .
| cos(1/x)|
c) f (x) = cos(1/x) .

Exercise 4. (15pts) Prove that for any positive integer N , one has
N
X
sin(N x + x/2) = sin(x/2) + 2 cos(n x) sin(x/2).
n=1

Hint: you can try to use the identity sin(a + b) = sin(a − b) + 2 cos(a) sin(b) several times.
sin(x)
Exercise 5. (25pts) Let f be the function defined by f (x) = for all x ̸= 0 in (−π, π).
|x|
a) Find the value of f (0−) and f (0+).
b) Is the function f piecewise continuous on (−π, π)?
c) Do the one-sided derivative f+′ (π/2) and f−′ (π/2) exist?
d) Can we conclude from the theorems seen in class that f˜(π/2) = 2/π?
e) What is the value of f ′ (0+), and the value of f+′ (0)?
Hint: For computing the one-sided limits, you may want to use l’Hôpital’s rule. L’Hôpital’s
rule is a theorem that saying that if g, h are functions such that g(x0 ) = 0 and h(x0 ) = 0 (and
g(x) g ′ (x0 )
the derivatives g ′ (x0 ), h′ (x0 ) exist) then lim = ′ .
x→x0 h(x) h (x0 )
p
Exercise 6. (25pts) Let f be the function defined on (−1, 1) by f (x) = |x|.
a) Is f piecewise continuous on (−1, 1)?
b) Is f piecewise smooth on (−1, 1)?
c) Do the one-sided derivatives f+′ (1/2) and f−′ (1/2) exist, and are they finite?
d) Let f˜ be the Fourier series of f . What is the value of f˜(1/2)? (You don’t need to
compute Fourier coefficients to answer this question!)
e) Let f˜ be the Fourier series of f . What is the value of f˜(5/2)?

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