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Help with plotting Fourier representations

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  • Subject: [mg54225] Help with plotting Fourier representations
  • From: "Diana" <diana53xiii at earthlink.remove13.net>
  • Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:17:13 -0500 (EST)
  • Reply-to: "Diana" <diana53xiii at earthlink.remove13.net>
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Folks,

I would like help with plotting the following problem with Mathematica. You
will see my basic attempts as follows:

First, find the Fourier series of the periodic function:

f(x+4) = f(x) for all x, defined by:

f(x) = -1 if -2<x<0

f(x) = 1 if 0<x<2

Since this is an odd function, we can just calculate the b_n's.

So, I calculated the following:

b[n_]:= (1/L) Integral (from 0 to L) of Sin[(n Pi t)/L]dt + (1/L) Integral
(from L to 2L) of -Sin[(n Pi t)/L]dt

g[x_]:= Summation as goes from 1 to 5 of b[n] Sin[n x]/:0 <= x <=2 L

g[x_]:= g[Mod[x,2 L]]

gtable=Table[g[n], {n, -8, 8, .1}];

ListPlot[gtable];

There must be a better way to do this, where the coordinates of the x and y
axes show up, at the least.

Thanks in advance for your help,

Diana
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