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MATH 1231 MATHEMATICS 1B 2010.For use in Dr Chris Tisdell’s lectures.
Calculus Section 4.4: Taylor & Power series.
1. What is a Taylor series?
2. Convergence of Taylor series
3. Common Maclaurin series
4. Applications
5. What is a power series?
6. Motivation
7. Radius of convergence
8. Manipulation of power series
Lecture notes created by Chris Tisdell. All images are from “Thomas’ Calcu-lus” by Wier, Hass and Giordano, Pearson, 2008; and “Calculus” by Rogowski,W H Freeman & Co., 2008.
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1. What is a Taylor series?
We now extend the idea of Taylor polynomials to Tay-lor series.
In particular, we can now fulfil our aim of developing a method for representing
a (differentiable) function f(x) as an (infinite) sum of powers of x. The main
thought–process behind our method is that powers of x are easy to evaluate,
differentiate and integrate, so by rewriting complicated functions as sums of
powers of x we can greatly simplify our analysis.
Colin Maclaurin was a professor of mathematics at Edinburgh univer-
sity. Newton was so impressed by Maclaurin’s work that he offered to pay part
of Maclaurin’s salary.
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Ex. Find the Maclaurin series for log(1 + x).
What happens if we try to find the Maclaurin series forlogx in powers of x?
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2. Convergence.
Recall from the theory of Taylor polynomials that Rk(x),the remainder of order k, between a function f(x) andits Taylor polynomial Pk(x) of order k is just
Rk(x) = f(x)− Pk(x).
Since
P (x) :=∞∑
n=0
f(n)(a)
n!(x− a)n
is the limit of the partial sums Pk(x) we see that theTaylor series converges to f(x) if and only if
limk→∞
Rk(x) = 0. (1)
The following theorem gives us a method of determin-ing when (1) holds.
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Ex: Find the Taylor series for the function cosx aboutthe point x = π
2, (i.e. in powers of (x− π2).) On what
interval does the Taylor series converge to cosx?
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4. Applications.
This section contains some nice applications of Taylorseries. We look at limits with indeterminate forms.
Ex. Evaluate limx→0sinx
x .
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We now move onto definite integrals where the inte-grand does not have an explicit antiderivative.
Ex. Express I :=∫ 10 sin(x2) dx as an infinite series.
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5. What is a power series?
We have already seen two special power series:
the Maclaurin series for a given function f(x) is apower series about x = 0 with
an =f(n)(0)
n!in (1);
the Taylor series for a given function f(x) about x = a
is a power series about x = a with
an =f(n)(c)
n!in (2).
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6. Motivation
Similar to polynomials, convergent power series canbe added, subtracted, multiplied, differentiated and in-tegrated to form new power series.
Consider the function
F (x) =∞∑
n=0
bnxn =∞∑
n=0
1
2nxn.
For what values of x does the above series converge?That is, what is the domain of F?It is clear that F (0) is defined, since substitution into the seriesgives
F (0) = 1 + 0 + 0 + . . . = 1.
What about F (1)? Substitution into the series yields
F (1) =∞∑
n=0
1
2n= 1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + . . . = 2.
What about F (3)? We see
F (3) =∞∑
n=0
1
2n3n
which is a geometric series that diverges. Thus, F (3) is notdefined.
Can we determine all values of x without substitu-tion??
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7. Radius of convergence.
To determine the radius of convergence, we can em-ploy the ratio test from our earlier work on infinite se-ries.
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Let us return to our previous example of
F (x) =∞∑
n=0
bnxn =∞∑
n=0
1
2nxn.
We compute the following ratio ρ, applying the ratio test
ρ = limn→∞
∣∣∣∣bn+1xn+1
bnxn
∣∣∣∣= lim
n→∞
∣∣∣∣xn+1
2n+1
∣∣∣∣ ∣∣∣∣2n
xn
∣∣∣∣=
1
2limn→∞
|x|
=1
2|x|.
By the ratio test, our series will converge when ρ = |x|/2 < 1.
That is, when |x| < 2. Similarly, our series will diverge when
ρ > 1, that is, when |x| > 2.
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8. Manipulation of power series.
The following theorems state that a power series F (x) can be
differentiated and integrated within its interval of convergence.
We may differentiate and integrate F (x) as if it were a polyno-
mial.
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