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Joseph’s College of Engineering, Chennai – 119

St. Joseph’s Institute of Technology, Chennai – 119
MA6351 – Transforms and Partial Differential Equations
Assignment - I
UNIT II – FOURIER SERIES
Year: II (Common to all Branches) Semester:
III
Part A

1. State Dirichlet’s conditions for the existence of Fourier series.

x , 0 < x < 1
2. Find the sum of the Fourier series for f ( x ) =  at x = 1
2 , 1 < x < 2
3. Find the Fourier coefficient bn for f ( x ) = x sin x in − l < x < l
4. Obtain the Half - range sine series of the function f(x) = 1 , 0 ≤ x ≤ π
5. Find a0 & an in the Fourier series expansion of f(x)=x 3 in −3 < x < 3
π2 ∞
cosnx ∞
1
6. +4 ∑
If ( π - x )2 = 2
in 0 < x < 2π then deduce that ∑ 2
3 n= 1 n n=1 n

7. Find the Root mean square value of the function f ( x ) = x in
, 

8. What is meant by Harmonic Analysis?

Part B

2
1 a π − x
Expand the Fourier series for f ( x ) =   , 0 < x < 2π and hence show that
 2 
1 1 1 π2
+ + + L =
12 22 32 6
2 + x , − 2 ≤ x ≤ 0
b Find the Fourier series for the function f (x) =  and hence deduce
2 − x , 0 ≤ x ≤ 2
1 1 1
2
+ 2 + 2 + L
1 3 5
2 a Obtain the Fourier series for 
 of period 

l − x , 0≤ x≤l
and defined as follows f ( x ) =  Hence deduce that
 0 , l ≤ x ≤ 2l

1 1 1 π
1− + − + L =
3 5 7 4
b Find the first two harmonics of the Fourier series of f ( x ) given by

x 0 1 2 3 4 5
f ( x) 9 18 24 28 26 20
3 a Find the complex form of the Fourier series of f ( x ) = e a x in ( −π , π ) and hence deduce that
∞
( −1)n π
∑ 2
n = −∞ a + n
2
=
a sinh aπ
b The following table gives the variations of a periodic function over a period T

0
⁄6
⁄3
⁄2 2
⁄3 5
⁄6


 1.98 1.3 1.05 1.3 – 0.88 – 0.25 1.98

Find the first two harmonics.
4 a Find the Fourier series of f ( x ) = x − x 2 in − l < x < l
b Find the half range cosine series of 
 =  in 0 < x < 4 and deduce the value of
1 1 1
4
+ 4 + 4 +L
1 3 5