534 CHAPTER 12 • FOURJER SERI ES AND THE LAPLACE TRANSFORM
We obtain the steady st ate solution by assuming that Up (t) has the Fourier
series representation
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Up (t) = ~o + 2::>n cosnt + 'L)n sin nt,
n=l n=l
and that u;, (t) and ui (t) can be obtained by termwise differentiation:
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2u; (t) = 2 L nbn cosnt- 2 L na.,.sinnt, and
n=l n=l
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u;(t) = - L:n^2 ancosnt-L:n^2 b,,sinnt.
n=l n=l
Substituting these expansions into the differential equation results in
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F (t) = a
2
° + L [(1-n^2 ) a,.+ 2nb,.} cosnt
n=l
00
+ L [-2nan + (1 - n
2
) bn} sinnt.
n = l
Equating the coefficients with the given series for F (t), we find that ~ = 0,
and that
when n is odd;
when n is even.
(l -n
2
) an+ 2nb,. = { ;2
- 2na.,. + (1 - n^2 ) bn = 0 for all n.
Solving this linear system for a,. and b,,, we get
1-n^2
n2 (1 + n2)2'
0,
2n
The general solution is
for n odd;
for n even.
for n odd;
for n even.
(^00) 1 - (2n- 1) 2
U (t) = A1e- t + A2te-t + L 2 cos [(2n - 1) t]
n=l (2n - 1)^2 [ 1 + (2n - 1)^2 ]
~ 2(2n- 1)
- L 2 sin[(2n-l)t).
n=l (2n-1)
2
[ 1 + (2n- 1)^2 ]