 Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-year-1-of-the-natural-sciences-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2022/paper-2/18/a/i/solution

A standard complete orthogonal family is the real Fourier basis

1, cos x, sin x, cos 2 x, sin 2 x, \dots .

Completeness gives expansion in the L2 space for a square-integrable function. Mere integrability alone does not guarantee pointwise convergence of a Fourier series; the explicit function in part (b) is continuous and piecewise smooth, so this issue does not obstruct its expansion.

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