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18MAB201T-Transforms and Boundary Value
Problems
Prepared by
Dr. S. ATHITHAN
Assistant Professor
Department of of Mathematics
Faculty of Engineering and Technology
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Unit-2FOURIER SERIES
TOPICS:
? Introduction of Fourier series -Dirichlet’s conditions for existence of Fourier Series
? Fourier series -related problems
? Half Range sine series-related problems
? Half Range cosine series-related problems
? Parseval’s Identity (without proof)-related problems
? Harmonic Analysis for finding fundamental harmonic
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Fourier Series
1.1
Harmonic Analysis
Example : 1
Compute the first three harmonics of the Fourier series for the following data: x 0 π/3 2π/3 π 4π/3 5π/3 2π
y 1.0 1.4 1.9 1.7 1.5 1.2 1.0
Hints/Solution:
Here length of the interval2l = 6.
∴The Fourier series is given by
f(x) = a0
2 + a1cos πx
3
+ a2cos
2πx 3
+a3cos
3πx 3
+ b1sin πx
3
+
b2sin
2πx 3
+b3sin
3πx 3
x y ycosx ysinx ycos 2x ysin 2x ycos 3x ysin 3x
0 1.0 1 0 1 0 1 0
π
3 1.4 0.7 1.212 -0.7 1.212 -1.4 0 2π
3 1.9 -0.95 1.65 -0.95 -1.645 1.9 0 3π
3 1.7 -1.7 0 1.7 0 -1.7 0
4π
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a0 = 2 Σy
n
= 2
8.7 6
= 2.9,
a1 = 2
Σycosx
n
= −0.37,
a2 = 2
Σycos 2x
n
= −0.1,
a3 = 2
Σycos 3x
n
= 0.03,
b1 = 2
Σysinx
n
= 0.17,
b2 = 2
Σysin 2x
n
= −0.06, b3 = 0
∴ f(x) = 2.9
2 −0.37 cosx−0.1 cos 2x+ 0.03 cos 3x+ 0.17 sinx−0.06 sin 2x
Example : 2
(a). Find the Fourier series upto 2 harmonics for the following data: x 0 1 2 3 4 5
y 9 18 24 28 26 20
Hints/Solution:
(a). Here length of the interval2l = 6.
∴The Fourier series is given by
f(x) = a0
2 +a1cos
πx
3
+a2cos
2πx
3
+b1sin
πx
3
+b2sin
2πx
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x u πx
3 y ycos πx 3 ysin πx 3 ycos 2πx 3 ysin 2πx 3
0 9 9 0 9 0
1=π
3 18 9 15.7 -9 15.6
2=2π
3 24 -12 20.9 -12 -20.9
3=3π
3 28 -28 0 28 0
4=4π
3 26 -13 -22.6 -13 22.6
5=5π
3 20 10 -17.4 -10 -17.4
125 -25 -3.4 -7 0.01 Now
a0 = 2 Σy n = 2 125 6
= 41.66,
a1 = 2
Σycos πx3
n
!
=−8.33,
a2 = 2
Σycos 2πx3
n
!
= −6.33,
b1 = 2
Σysin πx3
n
!
=−1.13,
b2 = 2
Σysin 2πx3
n
!
= 6.9
∴ f(x) = 41.66 −8.33 cos
πx
− 6.33 cos
2πx
− 1.13 sin
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Exercise/Practice/Assignment Problems
1. Compute the first three harmonics of the Fourier series for the following data:
x◦ 0 30 60 90 120 150 180 210 240 270 300 330 360
y 2.34 3.01 3.69 4.15 3.69 2.20 0.83 0.51 0.88 1.09 1.19 1.64 2.34
Ans:f(x) = 2.102 + 0.559 cosx+ 1.535 sinx−0.519 cos 2x−0.091 sin 2x+ 0.20 cos 3x+ 0 sin 3x
2. Compute the first three harmonics of the Fourier series for the following data:
x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
y 6.824 7.976 8.026 7.204 5.676 3.674 1.764 0.552 0.262 0.904 2.492 4.736
Ans:f(x) = 4.174+2.450 cosπx
6 +3.160 sin
πx
6 +0.120 cos 2πx
6 +0.034 sin 2πx
6 +
0.080 cos3πx
6 + 0.010 sin 3πx
6
3. Compute the first three harmonics of the Fourier series for the following data:
x◦ 0 45 90 135 180 225 270 315 360
y 6.824 8.001 7.204 4.675 1.764 0.407 0.904 3.614 6.824
Ans: f(x) = 4.174 + 2.420 cosx+ 3.105 sinx+ 0.12 cos 2x+ 0.03 sin 2x+ 0.110 cos 3x+ 0.045 sin 3x
4. Compute the first three harmonics of the Fourier series for the following data:
(a) x 0 π/6 2π/6 3π/6 4π/6 5π/6 π y 2.34 2.2 1.6 0.83 0.51 0.88 1.19
Ans:f(x) = 1.4 sinx+ 1.21 sin 2x+ 0.75 sin 3x
(b) x 0 T /6 2T /6 3T /6 4T /6 5T /6 T y 1.98 1.3 1.05 1.3 -0.88 -0.25 1.98 (c) x 0 30
◦
60◦ 90◦ 120◦ 150◦ 180◦
y 0 5224 8097 7850 5499 2626 0