22
ON CERTAIN EXPANSIONS,
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and integrating the resulting equation with respect to m,
a v „sin rm^ ^sin rm^ .
6 — -33-= A r = ra + 22 A r (28),
X v. ./ 1 X
a formula given in the fifth No. of the Mathematical Journal, and which suggested the
present paper.
As another example, let
uji-d) ta s/l - e 2 (cosw - e) .
/{«^ «},«■(»-w)^- (1 _, c03M y (29).
Then integrating with respect to m, there is a term
< 3 °)’
which it is evident, à priori, must vanish. Equating it to zero, and reducing, we obtain
e — A + \ 1
1 - e 2 l-^X + X" 1 ) K h
that is j= X + g (X“ + 1) + — (X 3 + 3X) + — (X 4 + 4X- + 3) + (32),
a singular formula, which may be verified by substituting for X its value : we then obtain
sin <*-- )-— -VÎ (33).
V y
The expansions of sin k{6 — ct), cos k (0 — -&), are in like manner given by the
formulae
cos k(6 — tn-) = A r L' cos kL cos rm (34),
V y
y N
• 7//) \ K? 7 J- Sill f Tli)X /or\
sin k(6 — *&) = 2 -00 A r y— cos kL (35),
rCV V
N S
where, to abbreviate, we have written
U0S Ai J 4«<>+*-‘) :=/ ' (36) -
{1 - (X + X—))=» _ r , (vrt
J 1-e 2 ’
Forming the analogous expressions for
cos k (6' — or'), sin k [6' — •ex'),