Fourier Series - QUIZ

Team A questions in white Team B questions in red

1. What is 1  (1) n when n = 3 ? 1  (1) 3  0

2. What is 1  (1) n when n = 52 ? 1  (1) 52  2

3. What is 1  (cos 2n) when n = 1 ? 1  (1)  2

4. What is 1  (cos 2n) when n = 17 ? 1  (1)  2

5. What is 1  (cos 2n) when n = 52 ? 1  (1)  2

6. What is 1  (cos n) when n = 1 ? 1  (cos  )  1  (1)  0

7. What is 1  (cos n) when n = 4 ? 1  (cos 4 )  1  (1)  2

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 
10
8. Team B: What is I  4 x dx ?
10
I  4
10
x dx  2 x 2
 200  200
10
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I   (2 x  5) dx ? I   (2 x  5) dx   x 2  5 x   150
10
9. Team A: What is
0 0 0
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10. Team B: Describe the following step function in terms of f(x) and x ?
when x  0 f ( x)  0
when x  0 f ( x)  50
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11. Team A: What is I   f ( x) dx

10
?

10 0 10

  0 dx   50 dx   0 x  10   50 x  0  500
0 10
I f ( x) dx 
10 10 0
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12. Team B: Describe the following step function over one period in
terms of f(x) and x ?
when 5  x  0 f ( x )  0
when 10  x  5 f ( x)  50
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13. Team A: What is the integral of f(x) over one period ?

10 5 10
I   f ( x) dx   0 dx   50 dx   0 x  0   50 x  5  250
5 10

0 0 5
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14. Team B: Describe the following step function over one period in
terms of f(x) and x ?
when 5  x  0 f ( x)  20
when 10  x  5 f ( x)  70
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15. Team A: What is the integral of f(x) over one period ?

10 5 10
I   f ( x) dx   20 dx   70 dx   20 x  0   70 x  5  450
5 10

0 0 5
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1 
2nx 2nx
Fourier series f ( x)  a0   an cos  bn sin
2 n 1 L L

16. Team B: If we were to represent the function below as a Fourier

series what could you say about the value of a0 ?
a0 is baseline shifter. Half way between 20 and 70 is 45. So a o = 90

2 period 2 5 2 10 1 1
a0   f ( x)dx       5  20  70  90
5 10
20dx 70dx [ 20 x ]0 [ 70 x ]
period 0 10 0 10 5 5 5
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1 
2nx 2nx
Fourier series f ( x)  a0   an cos  bn sin
2 n 1 L L

17. Team A: If we were to represent the function below as a Fourier

series what could you say about the values of the an terms ?

odd function so all an terms are zero

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1 
2nx 2nx
Fourier series f ( x)  a0   an cos  bn sin
2 n 1 L L

18. Team B: If we were to represent the function below as a Fourier

series what could you say about the sign of the b1 term ?
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1 
2nx 2nx
Fourier series f ( x)  a0   an cos  bn sin
2 n 1 L L

18. Team B: If we were to represent the function below as a Fourier

series what could you say about the value of the b1 term ?
It would have a negative amplitude
 Finding coefficients of the Fourier Series - QUIZ

Find Fourier series to represent this repeat pattern.

Steps to calculate coefficients of Fourier series

1. Write down the function f(x) in terms of x. What is period? f ( x)   x 0 x 


0   x  2
Period is 2
2. Use equation to find a0?

2 L 2 2 1  1 2 1 x 
2

L 0   
a0  f ( x ) dx  f ( x)dx  xdx  0dx  
2 0  0    2  0 2

3. Team A find coefficients an?

4. Team B find coefficients bn?

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Find Fourier series to represent this repeat pattern.

2 L 2nx x 0 x 
an   f ( x) cos dx f ( x)  
  x  2
L 0 L 0
Period is 2
3. Team A find coefficients an?
2 L 2nx 2 2 1  1 2
an   f ( x) cos dx   f ( x) cos nx dx   x cos nx dx   0 cos nx dx
L 0 L 2 0  0 
Integrate by parts  udv  uv   vdu so set u = x and cos (nx) dx = dv

1
v   cos nxdx  sin nx 1  1 x  1  1
n
and du = dx an 
  0
x cos nx dx   sin nx  
 n 0 
 0 n
sin nxdx

 
x   1  1 1   1 
an   sin nx   2 cos nx   sin n  2 cos n    0  2 
 n  0  n 0  n n   n 

n=1 n=2 n=3 n=4 n=5

 1 1 2  1   1   1   1  2  1   1  2
a1   0       
     
a2   0 
 4

  4
  0 a3   0 
  9

  9

 9 a4  0 a5   0 
 25

  25

 25
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Find Fourier series to represent this repeat pattern.

2 L 2nx x 0 x 
bn 
L 0
f ( x ) sin
L
dx f ( x)  
0   x  2
Period is 2
4. Team B find coefficients bn?
2 L 2nx 2 2 1  1 2
bn   f ( x) sin dx   f ( x) sin nx dx   x sin nx dx   0 sin nx dx
L 0 L 2 0  0  
Integrate by parts  udv  uv   vdu so set u = x and sin (nx) dx = dv

1
v   sin nxdx   cos nx 1  1 x  1  1
n
du = dx bn 
 
0
x sin nx dx    cos nx  
 n 0 
0 n
cos nxdx

 
 x   1   1 1 
bn   cos nx    2 sin nx     cos n  2 sin n 
 n  0  n 0  n n 

n=1 n=2 n=3 n=4 n=5

1 1 1 1
b1  1 b2  
2
b3 
3
b4  
4
b5 
5