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Linear Algebra and Fourier Analysis Exercises

This document is a practice sheet for Linear Algebra and Fourier Analysis, containing problems related to inner products, Fourier series, and Fourier transforms. It includes tasks such as computing inner products, applying the Gram-Schmidt process, and finding Fourier series expansions for various functions. The document is structured into sections focusing on inner products, Fourier series, and Fourier transforms, with specific mathematical exercises provided for each topic.

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Linear Algebra and Fourier Analysis Exercises

This document is a practice sheet for Linear Algebra and Fourier Analysis, containing problems related to inner products, Fourier series, and Fourier transforms. It includes tasks such as computing inner products, applying the Gram-Schmidt process, and finding Fourier series expansions for various functions. The document is structured into sections focusing on inner products, Fourier series, and Fourier transforms, with specific mathematical exercises provided for each topic.

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Linear Algebra & Fourier Analysis

Practise Sheet

1 Inner Product
1. Let ⟨u, v⟩ = uT Av where
 
2 0
A= , u, v ∈ R2 .
0 3

Check whether this defines a valid inner product on R2 .

2. Let f (x) = x, g(x) = x2 defined on [0, 1]. Compute their inner product in the space
C[0, 1] with the inner product
Z 1
⟨f, g⟩ = f (x)g(x) dx.
0

Show that sin(x) and cos(x) are orthogonal in this inner product space.
   
1 2 0 1
3. Let A = ,B= . Define inner product on M2×2 (R) by
0 3 1 2

⟨A, B⟩ = trace(AT B).

Compute ⟨A, B⟩.


2
4. Apply the Gram-Schmidt process to the R 1 functions f1 (x) = 1, f2 (x) = x, f3 (x) = x
over [0, 1] with inner product ⟨f, g⟩ = 0 f (x)g(x) dx, and compute the orthonormal
set up to f2 .

5. Apply Gram-Schmidt to orthogonalize the set {(1, 1, 1, 1), (1, 1, −1, −1), (1, −1, −1, 1)}
in R4 . Normalize the result to get an orthonormal basis.
MAT216 Practise sheet

6. Find the orthogonal complement W ⊥ using the standard inner product of the sub-
space,     
 1 2 
W = Span  3 , 1
 
0 4
 
 
x
Hint: ∀u ∈ W, ∀v ∈ W ⊥ we have ⟨u, v⟩ = 0. Okay, then consider y  ∈ W ⊥ , now
z
calculate the inner product and find the subspace.

2 Fourier series
1. Consider the function, (
−x, −π < x < 0
f (x) =
x, 0 < x < π
(a) Determine whether the function is even, odd or neither even nor odd.
(b) Find the Fourier series expansion of the function f (x).

2. Expand f (x) = cos(x), 0 < x < π in a Fourier sine series.

3. (a) Expand f (x) = x, 0 < x < 2 in a half range series of cosines.


(b) P
Using the parseval’s identity for this case and hence deduce the value of S =
∞ 1
n=1 n4 .

4. Expand f (x) = x2 , 0 < x < 2π, in a Fourier series if the period is 2π.

5. Expand (
x, 0<x<4
f (x) =
8 − x, 4 < x < 8
in a Fourier series of cosines.

6. Use euler identity to prove that the complex form of Fourier series can be expressed
as ∞
nπxi
X
cn e L
n=−∞

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3 Fourier Transform
1. Find the Fourier cosine transform of e−mx , x ≥ 0. Hence show that,
Z ∞
β cos(pv) π
2 2
dv = e−pβ , p > 0, β > 0
0 v +β 2

2. Find the Fourier transform of the function,


(
1 − x2 , |x| ≤ 1
f (x) =
0, |x| > 1

Hence, determine
∞
sin4 x
Z
π
dx =
0 x2 4
3. Find the Fourier transform of the function,
(
1, |x| < 1
f (x) =
0, |x| > 1

Hence, show that Z ∞


sin x π
dx =
0 x 2
4. Find the Fourier transform of the function,
(
1, |x| < a
f (x) =
0, |x| > a

Hence, show that Z ∞


sin(ax) cos(ax) π
dx =
0 x 4
5. Find the Fourier transform of the function,
(
1 − x2 , |x| < 1
f (x) =
0, |x| > 1

Hence, evaluate the definite integral


Z ∞
x cos(x) − sin(x) x
cos dx
0 x3 2

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6. Find the Fourier transform of the function,


(
1 − |x|, |x| < 1
f (x) =
0, |x| > 1

Hence, evaluate the definite integral


∞
sin2 x
Z
dx
0 x2

Best of Luck!

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