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Re: Problems with Legendre expansion

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  • Subject: [mg24467] Re: [mg24402] Problems with Legendre expansion
  • From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
  • Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 01:21:45 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: University of Western Australia
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Kevin.McCann at jhuapl.edu writes:

>I am doing a Legendre expansion of Sin[Pi x] and have, amongst others,
>the following integral
>
>Integrate[Sin[Pi*x]*LegendreP[21,x],{x,-1,1}]
>
>Mathematica just returns the input with the polynomial expanded out. 

You can often assist Integrate for "polynomial" by integrands by 
expanding the integrand:

   Integrate[Expand[Sin[Pi*x]*LegendreP[21,x]],{x,-1,1}]

Cheers,
   Paul

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