Chebyshev Polynomials - Questions

1. Determine the Chebyshev polynomials T0 (x) up to T10 (x) : 2. Write the powers of x; from x0 up to x10 ; in terms of Chebyshev polynomials. 3. Find the zero points and the extreme points of T5 (x) = 16x5 4. Economize e by writing x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 + + 2! 3! 4! 5! 6! in terms of Chebyshev polynomials, up to T5 (x) : e
x x

20x3 + 5x: x3 x4 + 3! 4! x5 5!

=1

x+

x2 2!

=1

x+

5. Economize sin(x) = x by writing

x3 3!

x3 x5 x7 + 3! 5! 7! in terms of Chebyshev polynomials, up to T3 (x) : sin(x) = x 6. Economize cos(x) = 1 by writing x2 x4 x6 cos(x) = 1 + 2! 4! 6! in terms of Chebyshev polynomials, up to T2 (x) : 7. Determine the coe cients in the expansion
1 X 1 ck Tk (x) arccos (x) = c0 + 2 k=1

x2 2!

by exploiting the orthogonality of the Chebyshev polynomials. 1

8. Expand the step function f (x) = 1 0 x>0 x<0

in terms of Chebyshev polynomials. 9. Prove that Tm (Tn (x)) = Tmn (x): 10. Prove that Tm+n (x) + Tm
n

(x) = 2Tm (x) Tn (x) :