Orthogonality of Sines

M.M. Yovanovich

ORTHOGSINES.MWS

Orthogonality of Sines.

> restart:
with(linalg):

Warning, new definition for norm

Warning, new definition for trace

> matsin:= (m,n)->int(sin(m*Pi*x/L)*sin(n*Pi*x/L), x = 0..L);

[Maple Math]

Obtain a 10 by 10 matrix to show that all entries except for the diagonal are zeros. This shows that the sines

have the orthogonality property [Maple Math] for [Maple Math] different from [Maple Math] , otherwise the integral gives [Maple Math] for all values [Maple Math] .

> matrix(10,10,matsin);

[Maple Math]

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