Put . The trigonometric identities give . Expanding cosine at zero gives
The linear and cubic terms vanish, so these are the first two nonzero Taylor series terms.
Put . The double-angle trigonometric identities imply . Since is in the first quadrant, the positive square root is required. The half-angle identities then give the requested expression in terms of :
The double-angle trigonometric identity gives , or . Preserve both factors: contributes the endpoint, while contributes the interior solution. In the specified interval,
Use the product-to-sum formula and the double-angle trigonometric identities:
By Fourier orthogonality, these are already its only nonzero Fourier series coefficients:
The trigonometric identity gives , and the complementary-angle trigonometric identity gives . Thus the Fourier series is already the finite expression
The only nonzero Fourier coefficients are and .
The equation as printed requires ; its sign does not affect the result. Seek separated solutions . Substitution into the wave equation gives
The Neumann boundary conditions impose . Multiplying the spatial equation by and integration by parts gives , so nontrivial spatial eigenfunctions require .
For , is constant and . For , . The first boundary condition gives , and the second gives . Thus is a positive integer and the spatial eigenfunctions are . Their time dependence is . By superposition,
The zero initial velocity sets . The trigonometric identity gives the initial profile , so only the constant mode and the first cosine mode occur. Hence
Its spatial derivative is , which vanishes at both boundaries, and its time derivative vanishes initially. Thus it satisfies all the required data.
Use the trigonometric identity and express the cosine as a sum of two complex exponentials. The Fourier transform of each exponential is a shifted Dirac delta distribution:
By linearity,
The original function does not decay and is not absolutely integrable on the real line, so this answer is a tempered distribution, rather than an ordinary convergent Fourier integral. Its three lines represent the constant part and the two opposite spatial frequencies.
The relevant comparison is between gravity and surface tension. With the mass density difference , the Bond number and capillary length are
Thus the drop is small compared with the capillary length; hydrostatic pressure variations only weakly perturb its shape. The Young–Laplace equation then gives approximately constant interfacial mean curvature, and an axisymmetric drop on a uniform flat substrate is a spherical cap. The substrate selects the contact angle, measured through the water.
Write for the radius of the generating sphere, for the contact-circle radius, and for the apex height. Elementary trigonometric identities give
Taking the stated droplet radius to mean its radius of curvature, , gives
There is no diagram or explicit radius convention in the original PDF. If instead denotes the contact-circle radius, the answer is . If it denotes the radius of an equal-volume free sphere, use the volume of a spherical cap, , to obtain . The spherical cap approximation is justified in all three conventions; a unique numerical height requires specifying which radius is meant.
Figure 1. . Original cross-section distinguishing the generating-sphere radius , contact-circle radius , and height . The dashed part of the generating circle lies below the substrate. Details.
As an original stipulated low-field model, take the axial magnetic field intensity in and prescribe
All strain components are dimensionless, and their trace vanishes. This is an even, quasistatic, unsaturated toy law with a fixed measuring axis. It is distinct from the fixed-magnitude directional model in saturated isotropic magnetostrictive strain. In particular, one must not replace local unit magnetization by normalized net magnetization in a many-domain specimen and assume this law follows.
For , , and , a trigonometric identity gives
The axial strain ranges from zero to , with mean and a component of amplitude . The cosine coefficient is negative with the chosen time origin. For the length ranges from zero to relative to . There is no term in this unbiased model.
Figure 1.
Stipulated angular, reversal, and frequency responses of magnetostrictive strain
. Original calculations, not experimental data: the angular panel uses a saturated isotropic model with positive saturation magnetostriction; the other panels use a separately stipulated quadratic field law. Microstrain denotes a relative length change of one part per million. Details.
A static bias changes the conclusion. Expanding produces a fundamental-frequency term as well as the doubled-frequency term. This is an incremental linear response about a state with a chosen magnetic axis; it does not contradict isotropic linear magnetostriction vanishes at an unbiased isotropic reference. Real hysteresis, thermal expansion from Joule heating, and mechanical resonance can add further components or change their phases. Frequency alone cannot identify the cause of motion: Joule heating also contains an even-in-electric current contribution.
Trigonometric identity 2026-10-18
A trigonometric identity is an equality involving trigonometric functions that holds for every input in its stated domain.