December 2020
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13.7 Orthogonal Series Expansions
INTRODUCTION
For certain types of boundary conditions, the method of separation of variables and the superposition principle lead to an expansion of a function in an infinite series that is not a Fourier series. To solve the problems in this section we shall utilize the concept of orthogonal series expansions or generalized Fourier series developed in Section 12.1.
EXAMPLE 1 Using Orthogonal Series Expansions
The temperature in a rod of unit length in which there is heat transfer from its right boundary into a surrounding medium kept at a constant temperature zero is determined from

Solve for u(x, t).
SOLUTION ...
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