Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2021/ii/paper-2/11h/g/solution

With , the weight becomes . Since
the sine orthogonality relations show that is a scalar multiple of the Chebyshev polynomial of the second kind . Its roots are
The printed normalization is possible only for even ; then and
For odd , every such orthogonal polynomial is odd and vanishes at zero, so that normalization is inconsistent.

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