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> 1. for the sample midterm found here:
 
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Practice problems for Exam 2 discussion area


Conversation between a student a Steve Bell:

> 1. for the sample midterm found here:
> http://www.math.purdue.edu/~bell/MA527/prac2a.pdf
> 
> For #3, what i tried to do is just do the
> Laplace transform on each function and then
> multiply them together.

Yes, that will give you the Laplace transform
of the convolution. But they also want you to
compute the (Laplace) convolution of those two
functions. I did a problem exactly like that
near the end of my lecture today. Note that,
from the point of view of Laplace transforms
u(t) times e^t is the same as e^t.

> For #6 I looked up Laplace for periodic
> function and came across something totally
> different. 

The relevant formula is the last one on the
cover page of the exam found at

http://www.math.purdue.edu/~bell/MA527/laplace.pdf

> For #10 I haven't completed it yet but my plan
> was to plug in f(x) in Parseval's identity and
> see if the summation of the coefficient and the
> integral of the function will be the same. 

That is the right idea. The left hand side will
be bigger than something and the right hand side
will be smaller than something, and you get an
impossible situation.

> 2. for the mid term found here:
> http://www.math.purdue.edu/~bell/MA527/mid2.pdf
> 
> For #4-b we are asked to find the real Fourier
> series from the complex one, is there a way to
> do this without doing some of the calculation again.

I mentioned today that there will be no problems
about the complex Fourier SERIES on Exam 2. The
point of the question you refer to is that the
integrals for the complex Fourier series are very
easy to compute. To get the real Fourier series
from it, you just expand the e^(inx) and e^(-inx)
in terms of sine and cosine and then take the
real part of what you get.

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