Tuesday, 3 April 2018

trigonometry - Simple expressions for sumnk=0cos(ktheta) and sumnk=1sin(ktheta)?











I'm curious if there is a simple expression for

1+cosθ+cos2θ++cosnθ
and
sinθ+sin2θ++sinnθ.
Using Euler's formula, I write z=eiθ, hence zk=eikθ=cos(kθ)+isin(kθ).
So it should be that
1+cosθ+cos2θ++cosnθ=(1+z++zn)=(1zn+11z).
Similarly,
sinθ+sin2θ++sinnθ=(z++zn)=(zzn+11z).
Can you pull out a simple expression from these, and if not, is there a better approach? Thanks!


Answer



Take the expression you have and multiply the numerator and denominator by 1ˉz, and using zˉz=1:
1zn+11z=1zn+1ˉz+zn2(z+ˉz)



But z+ˉz=2cosθ, so the real part of this expression is the real part of the numerator divided by 22cosθ. But the real part of the numerator is 1cos(n+1)θcosθ+cosnθ, so the entire expression is:



1cos(n+1)θcosθ+cosnθ22cosθ=12+cosnθcos(n+1)θ22cosθ




for the cosine case. You can do much the same for the case of the sine function.


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