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Fourier sine series

The pure-sine Fourier series an odd periodic function's expansion reduces to.

For an odd function, orthogonality forces every cosine coefficient a_n to vanish, leaving only sine terms. What remains is called the Fourier sine series of f -- a Fourier series with no constant term and no cosine terms at all, built entirely from the odd extension of a function originally defined only on half an interval.

Examples

  • The Fourier series of f(x)=x on (-\pi,\pi) is a pure Fourier sine series, since f is odd.

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