Friday, 26 July 2013

Fourier series on general interval [a,b]

Currently I'm studying Fourier series and the first thing I've read is the definition of the series for a function f:[π,π]R. In that case the Fourier series is



F[π,π][f](x)=a02+n=1ancos(nx)+bnsin(nx)



with coefficients




a0=1πππf(x)dx,an=1πππf(x)cos(nx)dx,bn=1πππf(x)sin(nx)dx.



As I know, the idea behind this is that defining fn(x)=cos(nx) and gn(x)=sin(nx) the set of functions {1,fn,gn:nN}L2[π,π] is complete and orthogonal with respect to the inner product



f,g=ππf(x)g(x)dx.



Now, the text I'm reading also delas with extending this to one interval [L,L]. The text just states that the Fourier series of a function f:[L,L]R would be



F[L,L][f](x)=a02+n=1ancos(nπxL)+bnsin(nπxL)




with the new coefficients



a0=1LLLf(x)dx,an=1LLLf(x)cos(nπxL)dx,bn=1LLLf(x)sin(nπxL)dx.



I didn't understand however, how to get to this. There are also some exercises which asks to compute the series of a function f:[0,2π]R for example.



In that case, given a general interval [a,b] and f:[a,b]R, what is the Fourier series of f, and how does it relate to the usual Fourier series defined on [π,π]?

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