Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences

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ISBN: 9780471198260

Author: Mary L. Boas

Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated

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Chapter 7.5, Problem 9P

In each of the following problems you are given a function on the interval − π < x < π .

Sketch several periods of the corresponding periodic function of period 2 π .

Expand the periodic function in a sine-cosine Fourier series.

f ( x ) = − x , − π < x < 0 , x , 0 < x < π .

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