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Calculating Fourier Series

For Students 9th - 10th
The authors provide problems involving the calculation of Fourier series and then take a stepwise approach to solving them.
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Analyze Math

Analyze Math: Fourier Series of Periodic Functions

For Students 9th - 10th
The tutorial investigates the Fourier series. The resource consists of an example that shows how Fourier coefficients are calculated and an interactive applet that examines the Fourier series.
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Charles Fourier

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an excerpt from Fourier's 1820 book, "Theory of Social Organization," which explains his theory of communal work distribution that influenced a number of social experiments, including the Israeli kibbutzim.
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Math World: Fourier Transform Exponential Function

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains how the Fourier transform of an exponential function is related to the Lorentzian function. Site also contains relevant links.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Fourier Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use the TI InterActive! software to explore the connection between a function and its Fourier series.
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University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Fourier Making Waves

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to make waves of all different shapes by adding up sines or cosines. Make waves in space and time and measure their wavelengths and periods. See how changing the amplitudes of different harmonics changes the waves. Compare...
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Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Fast Fourier Transform

For Students 9th - 10th
The Fast Fourier Transform is applied using examples of digital audio recording. Connections to frequency are made through prisms and the cochlea of the ear.
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Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Half Range Fourier Series

For Students 9th - 10th
This presentation helps to identify when a function can be represented by only a half range Fourier series. It then shows how to find these series for even and odd functions.
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Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Fourier Series Even & Odd Functions

For Students 9th - 10th
After identifying even and odd functions, the process for finding the Fourier Series for these types of functions is demonstrated. Detailed examples and graphs are provided.
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Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Full Range Fourier Series

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson presents the Dirichlet conditions that are required in order to represent a function as a Fourier Series. Examples are provided along with graphs of the waveforms that represent the functions.
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Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Vital Revision for Fourier Series

For Students 9th - 10th
Begin your studies of the Fourier Series with this lesson. It contains information on all of the essentials of getting started, including trigonometric functions, continuity, periodic functions, and more.
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Marxists Internet Archive

Encyclopedia of Marxism: Fourier, Francois Charles

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from the Marxists Internet Archive relies almost entirely on Frederick Engels' assessment of Fourier and his writing. Extensive quotation from Engel's "The Development of Socialism from Utopia to Science."
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance (Ft Icr)

For Students 9th - 10th
FT-ICR is a powerful type of mass spectrometry, co-invented by the Magnet Lab's Alan Marshall, particularly suited to identifying heavy molecules. (Java tutorial)
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Harvey Mudd College

Harvey Mudd College: Special Trigonometric Integrals

For Students 9th - 10th
Proves that the cos and sin functions form an orthogonal set, as it applies to Fourier series.
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Curated OER

Charles Fourier

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An image of Charles Fourier.
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Curated OER

Smithsonian Libraries: Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768 1830)

For Students 9th - 10th
A portrait of Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.
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Curated OER

Smithsonian Libraries: Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768 1830)

For Students 9th - 10th
A portrait of Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Getting Started With the Calculus Tools App

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This user-friendly application extends the build-in power of your TI-89 and TI-92 Plus by providing more specialized functionality. Use Calculus to investigate applications of differentiation, compare numerical integration techniques and...
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Paul Dawkins

Paul's Online Notes: Differential Equations

For Students 9th - 10th
The tutorial explores differential equations. Topics examined are first order differential equations, second order differential equations, Laplace transforms, Fourier series, higher order differential equations, and systems of...
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Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Line Spectrum

For Students 9th - 10th
Using Fourier and Harmonic series, the line spectrums of functions are derived and represented on graphs. Several music examples show the connection between harmonics and sound.
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Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Harmonic Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
Derived from the Fourier series, the harmonic series can be used to represent even and odd functions. Definitions of second and third harmonics are also provided.
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Math2

Math2.org: Series Expansion

For Students 9th - 10th
A lengthy look at the rules and formulas of calculus Fourier series. Included topics: Fourier series of functions, remainders of Fourier series, Riemann's theorem, Parseval's theorem, arbitrary intervals, and Fourier transformations.
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Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Computational Science and Engineering I

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a course reviewing linear algebra with applications to networks, structures, and estimation. Webpage includes thirty-six lectures from a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lectures...
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Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Introduction to Infinite Series

For Students 9th - 10th
This discussion on infinite series is a precursor to a lesson on the Fourier Series. The lesson uses graph comparison to distinguish between a series and an infinite series.

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