| course |
course_year |
question_number |
tags |
title |
year |
Complex Methods |
IB |
25 |
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4.II.17B |
2002 |
(a) Using the inequality $\sin \theta \geq 2 \theta / \pi$ for $0 \leq \theta \leq \frac{\pi}{2}$, show that, if $f$ is continuous for large $|z|$, and if $f(z) \rightarrow 0$ as $z \rightarrow \infty$, then
$$\lim {R \rightarrow \infty} \int{\Gamma_{R}} f(z) e^{i \lambda z} d z=0 \quad \text { for } \quad \lambda>0$$
where $\Gamma_{R}=R e^{i \theta}, 0 \leq \theta \leq \pi$.
(b) By integrating an appropriate function $f(z)$ along the contour formed by the semicircles $\Gamma_{R}$ and $\Gamma_{r}$ in the upper half-plane with the segments of the real axis $[-R,-r]$ and $[r, R]$, show that
$$\int_{0}^{\infty} \frac{\sin x}{x} d x=\frac{\pi}{2}$$