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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2002 ib Paper 1 2A Solution by
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The Fourier sine series has coefficientsby integration by parts. ThusIts odd extension is on , continued with period . The usual Fourier convergence result for a piecewise smooth periodic function gives the value at a continuous point and the mean of one-sided limits at a jump. At , subtracting one period gives , a continuous point of this extension. Therefore the sine series converges to there.
For the Fourier cosine series, the even extension is on , continued with period . Its triangular wave is continuous even at the joining points, so the cosine series converges to that extension everywhere. On the requested interval its graph isThe vertices are . In particular, its value at is .
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