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EXAM Practice Questions for the Final Exam Math 3350, Spring 2004 May 3, 2004 ANSWERS i These are some practice problems from Chapter 10, Sections 1–4. See pre- vious practice problem sets for the material before Chapter 10. Problem 1. Let f (x) be the function of period 2L = 4 which is given on the interval (−2, 2) by f (x) = 0, −2 x 0 2 − x, 0 x 2. Find the Fourier Series of f (x). Answer : The function is neither even nor odd. The Fourier coefficients are calculated as follows. For a , we have 0 a0 = 1 L f (x) dx 2L −L = 1 2 f (x) dx 4 −2 = 1 2 (2 − x) dx, since f (x)=0 on (−2, 0) 4 0 1 . = 2 For an with n ≥ 1, we have an = 1 L f (x) cos nπ x dx L −L L = 1 2 f (x) cos nπ x dx 2 −2 2 = 1 2 (2 − x) cos nπ x dx 2 0 2 2 n = − 2 2 [1 − (−1) ] n π = 0, 4 n even − 2 2 , n odd. n π 1 Finally, for bn we get bn = 1 L f (x) sin nπ x dx L −L L = 1 2 f (x) sin nπ x dx