Paper 1, Section II, A

Methods
Part IB, 2010

(a) A function f(t)f(t) is periodic with period 2π2 \pi and has continuous derivatives up to and including the kk th derivative. Show by integrating by parts that the Fourier coefficients of f(t)f(t)

an=1π02πf(t)cosntdtbn=1π02πf(t)sinntdt\begin{aligned} &a_{n}=\frac{1}{\pi} \int_{0}^{2 \pi} f(t) \cos n t d t \\ &b_{n}=\frac{1}{\pi} \int_{0}^{2 \pi} f(t) \sin n t d t \end{aligned}

decay at least as fast as 1/nk1 / n^{k} as nn \rightarrow \infty

(b) Calculate the Fourier series of f(t)=sintf(t)=|\sin t| on [0,2π][0,2 \pi].

(c) Comment on the decay rate of your Fourier series.