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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2009 ib Paper 2 5B Solution by
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The Fourier sine series coefficients of on areby integration by parts. The odd periodic extension is piecewise smooth, so the Fourier series converges to at every interior point. HenceTo justify integration from zero, the Fourier sine series partial sums converge to in L2 norm. By the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, integration from zero to any has error at most times that L2 norm error, uniformly in . Integrating the partial sums and taking the limit therefore givesThe integrated series is absolutely and uniformly convergent, since its terms are bounded by . Thus the resulting Fourier cosine series hasIndependently, the constant coefficient isComparison yields the requested exact sum
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