Solution

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Put , so , and . The contour integral is
The 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 gives
A useful independent check is the Fourier series ; only its constant and third Fourier coefficients survive.

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