Differentiate the Fourier series term by term and collect cosine and sine terms. Substitution into the equation gives
For a smooth periodic solution, differentiation of the series is justified. Alternatively, multiply the differential equation by each trigonometric mode and integrate by parts; periodicity cancels the boundary terms and gives the same coefficient constraints without first differentiating an infinite sum.
Fourier orthogonality isolates a coefficient. Multiplication by and integration over annihilates the constant, all cosine terms and all sine terms except the one with , whose squared integral is . Thus the corresponding coefficients on the two sides must agree for each positive integer .
Multiplication by works in the same way, while integration against the constant mode extracts . This is the uniqueness of the Fourier coefficients; it does not follow from comparing a few point values of the series.
The curve starts at and initially rises. It crosses zero at and , attains its maximum at and minimum at , then returns to . These follow either from the shifted sine form or from .
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The unique periodic sinusoidal response, with its maximum, minimum and zero crossings
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The complementary function is . A particular solution is , since applying to either sine or cosine multiplies it by . Thus
At zero, , giving . At , the cosine term vanishes and the particular term is , so . Consequently
The two boundary conditions determine the two constants uniquely because their evaluation matrix on is the identity.
Set for this part. In the interval the special points are . Elsewhere is a composition of smooth functions.
At zero, and therefore . Its assigned value is zero, so the function is continuous and differentiable there, with .
At either tangent pole , the bounded sine oscillates without a limit. For an explicit check at , let and . Both approach from below, but the function values are respectively and . Negating these sequences gives the same obstruction at . Assigning the value zero at the poles cannot repair either limit.
Thus is discontinuous and nondifferentiable exactly at , and is smooth elsewhere in the specified interval.
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Undamped tangent-phase oscillations with assigned zero values at both poles and an ordinary differentiable crossing at zero
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For negative real , the angle lies strictly between and . On that interval, has exactly the two solutions and . Dividing by and applying the natural logarithm yields
Both values are negative, and the restriction excludes all further periodic sine branches.
The complex sine function identity follows from the exponential definition of sine. With , its imaginary term vanishes, while
Consequently the real part is and the imaginary part is .
The absolute value in the original PDF reflects every negative sine arch upward. The graph is nonnegative, with zeros at for , and it lies below the decaying envelope . On the th arch, differentiation gives a factor proportional to . Thus its unique local maximum is
Successive maximum heights have ratio . At each interior zero the one-sided slopes have opposite signs, producing a corner. The smaller panels below magnify the later arches so that all four remain visible.
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Four positive exponentially damped sine arches, with separate linear-scale enlargements of the later arches
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Choose . The two travelling profiles then add by the sine addition identity:
This is a standing wave. At and it vanishes for all . At its displacement is , and its time derivative is zero. Also and , directly checking the original equation.
With the standard real normalization, the Fourier series of a period- function is
where
For the partial sum , Fourier orthogonality eliminates all cross terms. The constant term contributes , while every squared sine or cosine integrates to , giving
For a square-integrable function, completeness of the trigonometric orthogonal basis in the Hilbert space makes in norm. Passing to the limit proves Parseval's identity:
Square integrability is the needed hypothesis here; periodicity alone is not an integrability or convergence condition.
First calculate the curl:
By Stokes theorem, use the positively oriented equator , . Its tangent is , while the restricted field is . Thus
The first term integrates to zero over a full period and the second uses .
One can also calculate directly on the curved surface. With spherical coordinates , ,
Substitution gives the scalar integrand . Its azimuthal sine term vanishes, and the rest gives , confirming the orientation and the same result.
Use differentiation under the integral sign, justified by the integrable bound . This gives
Integration by parts makes the boundary term vanish: sine vanishes at zero and the Gaussian tends to zero at infinity. Therefore
The integrating factor makes , so . At , the given half-line Gaussian integral fixes . Thus
This is the even cosine-transform form of the Fourier transform of a Gaussian.
Take the odd extension on and then extend with period . It agrees with the required arch for and is continuous at its joins. Its Fourier sine series has
For clarity, let , so and . Two integrations by parts, with the first endpoint term zero, give
Consequently : the even coefficients vanish and the odd ones are . This proves
The Fourier sine series of an odd quadratic arch converges to this continuous extension; its coefficients are also absolutely summable. Finally evaluate at . The left side is and the sine factors are , so
The evaluation is at a continuity point, so it does not invoke a jump midpoint.
The argument is odd, so its squared sine is even. Replacing by interchanges the numerator and denominator inside the logarithm, changing that factor's sign. Thus the full integrand is an odd function. It is continuous on the symmetric interval because . Therefore
The maximum of sine is one. The allowed parameter values giving are
Substituting each into gives
All three parameter values lie in the original interval, so none of these maxima is discarded.
On the specified domain , so multiplying by is legitimate. Use the double-angle identity to find
The first factor gives . The second gives , yielding four more values in the interval. Thus
Every listed value has nonzero sine and satisfies the original equation. Dividing by would incorrectly lose the two solutions .
The sine and cosine functions are orthogonal over a complete period. For positive integers ,
while every mixed sine-cosine integral and every integral of a nonconstant single harmonic is zero. These identities follow from the product-to-sum formulas and the integer-period endpoint values.
Multiply the Fourier series by and integrate. All terms except vanish, giving . Repeating with sine isolates . Thus
Integrating without a harmonic also gives . The factor on the constant term in the chosen convention is essential.
Put , so the nonzero half-cycle is . The constant coefficient is
The sine coefficients satisfy
by sine orthogonality. For the cosine coefficients, the product-to-sum identity gives, when ,
The case is zero directly. Hence
The first five nonzero terms, counting the constant as the zero-frequency term, are
The general coefficient formula specifies every remaining term. This is the Fourier series of a half-wave rectified sinusoid; the waveform is continuous at the joins, so the series gives its actual value there.