8/6/2017 Differential Equations - Review : Power Series

Example 1 Determine the radius of convergence for the following power series.

Solution
So, in this case we have,

Remember that to compute an+1 all we do is replace all the ns in an with n+1. Using the ratio test then gives,

Now we know that the series will converge if,

and the series will diverge if,

In other words, the radius of the convergence for this series is,

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