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Past exam of the short options paper of the physics Prelims of the University of Oxford 2019 S1 3 b Solution by
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Put , so , and . The contour integral isThe enclosed poles are and . For the rational function displayed without the prefactor , the residue at zero is and the two other residues sum to . Therefore the residue theorem givesA useful independent check is the Fourier series ; only its constant and third Fourier coefficients survive.
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