Science:Math Exam Resources/Courses/MATH105/April 2012/Question 01 (c)
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Question 01 (c) |
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Express the Taylor series of the function about x = 0 in summation notation. |
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First, use the fact from part (b) that provided |r| < 1, to get the power series of per integration. Then make a proper substitution for r. |
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Solution |
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Please rate my easiness! It's quick and helps everyone guide their studies. For |r|<1 we use that and integrate both sides to obtain Since |r| < 1 we have |1-r| = 1-r, therefore To solve for the integration constant C we plug in r = 0: so C = 0. So we obtain the intermediate result that To arrive at the summation notation, we noted that every term has the same sign (so there are no terms like floating around), every integer power of is included starting from , and each is divided by k. As a last step, the Taylor series for can be found by replacing by in the series above. We find:
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