Fourier series of a half-wave rectified sinusoid

ID: fourier-series-of-a-half-wave-rectified-sinusoid

For , with period , half-wave rectification gives
The Fourier coefficients are , , , with all remaining coefficients zero. To derive the cosine coefficients, integrate over and use the product-to-sum identity. The sine coefficients follow from orthogonality. A half-period delay reverses only the fundamental sine term and leaves the constant and even-frequency cosine terms unchanged, by translation of a Fourier series.

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