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1. Find the radius and interval of convergence of (4x 1)n .

n=1
n
n
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This is easy. If the series n an (x ) has radius of convergence R, then the interval of
convergence can be found by solving |x | < R.
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2. Find the power series and the range of validity of the function (1x2 )3
.
Do it yourself.
3. Determine whether the following sequence/series of functions converge uniformly.
(i) fn (x) = x/n on [0, 1]. (Easy, |fn (x)| 1/n for all x [0, 1])
(
1/nx if x 6= 0
(ii) fn (x) = , on [0, 1]. (Slightly hard, for a fixed n, the function fn (x)
0 if x = 0
is unbounded on [0, 1] while the pointwise limit function is the constant function f (x) = 0,
so )
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(iii) (xex )n on [0, ). (Just about easy, study the function x/ex on [0, ) where it is
n=0
uniformly bounded by 1/e (why?). Thus the given series converges uniformly on [0, )
by Weierstrass test)
 
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4. Use Taylor series to evaluate the limit lim (Just use the Maclaurin series
x0 sin x 1 ex
for sin x and ex . Do it! The answer is 1/2)
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5. Evaluate the integral dx.
1 n=1
(1 + nx)2
Justify why should we be able to
Pinterchange
R the integral and the sum (think uniform conver-
gence and integration). Once the and are interchanged, the problem is now that for high-
schoolers. the answer is 1.
6. Find the Fourier series of the following 2 periodic function which is defined on [, ) as

1 for x < /2


f (x) = 1 for /2 x < 0 .


0 for 0x<

Your answer should be

   
2 cos 3x cos 5x cos 7x 4 sin 2x sin 6x sin 10x
cos x + + + + + +
3 5 7 2 6 10

7. Using the 2-periodic function that is defined as f (x) = x on [, ), evaluate the sum 1 + 14 +
1
9
+ + n12 + . (Done in class as well as available on slides for a slightly different domain, the
answer is 2 /6).