Solution

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The function is even and continuous, with period . On it is , so it rises from zero to one at , crosses zero at , reaches minus one at , and returns to zero at . Reflect this curve about the vertical axis and repeat periodically. The joins at integer multiples of have corners, but no jumps.
Figure 1.
Even periodic extension of a sine mode and its Fourier approximation
. Original plot over two periods. The dashed approximation uses the first twelve nonzero cosine coefficients; the exact function is continuous with corners at integer multiples of . Details.

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