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Legendre polynomials. Use the Gram Schmidt procedure (ProblemA.4) to orthonormalize the functions 1,x,x2,andx3, on the interval-1≤x≤1. You may recognize the results-they are (apart from the normalization)30Legendre polynomials (Table 4.1 )

Short Answer

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The final normalized polynomial are given by:

L1~=12L2~=32xL3~=458~x2-13L4~=1758x3-35x

Step by step solution

01

Orthonormality and Gram-Schmidt procedure.

When a series of process is used to convert a set of linearly independent vectors into orthonormal vectors set, then the process is known as Gram-Schmidt technique (or process). The space of orthonormal vectors set would be same as the original set.

An inner product, which varies from space to space, defines orthonormality. This issue involves an inner product on an interval, which means that the integral's limits are contained inside the provided range.

Here idea is to first take nth polynomial of the form xnand remove all other components (Gram-Schmidt procedure) and after doing so, normalize it. Construct a first vector (first polynomial). Let us denote it by:

L1=1

No need to check orthogonality to others, since this is first vector, there is nothing to compare it to! However, check whether it is normalized.

∫-11L12dx=∫-111dx=x|-11=2

It is not normalized in the terms of given inner product! Therefore, to normalize it, modify L1by adding a constant denote the normalized polynomials with tilde:

L1~=12L1=12

The goal of the problem is to construct the next polynomial. Use Gram-Schmidt procedure, first remove the~L1component from the next polynomial x to obtain L2which is orthogonal to L1.

L2=X-x|L1~L1□=x-12∫-1112xds=x-0=x

Now one can easily conclude that the latter integral vanishes since here integration is done on an odd function on an even interval. Again, normalize it:

∫-11L22dx=∫-11x2dx=13x3-11=23Therefore,forthelatterintegraltobeequalto1,multiplytheL2asfollows:L2□=32L2=32x

02

Construct the third vector (polynomial) and the normalized version of the vector.

To construct the third vector (polynomial), subtract the ~L1and ~L2components from x2

L3=x2-x2|L1□L1□-x2|L2□L2□=x2-12∫-1112x2dx-32x∫-1132x3dx=x2-1223-0=x2-13

Once again, normalize it, and see that the norm of the L3vector is:

∫-11L32dx=∫-11x2132dx=845

The integral is simply evaluated by expanding the square brackets and integrating polynomials. Therefore, the normalized version of the vector is:

L3â–¡=458x2-13

03

Obtain the fourth vector and final normalized polynomial.

Finally, to obtain the fourth vector, start by subtracting the other already obtained components from x3,as the Gram-Schmidt procedure instructs.

L4=x3-x3|L1~L1~-x3|L2~L2~-x3|L3□L3~=x3-12∫-1112x3dx-32x∫-1132x4dx-n-458x2-13∫-11458x2-13x3dxn=x3-0-32x∫-11x4dx-458x2-13∫-1113x3dx=x3-35x

And proceeding in the same manner as previously, normalize the polynomial:

∫-11L42dx=∫-11x-35x2dx=8175

Which can be simply evaluated by integrating polynomials. These steps have been skipped due to simplicity of the latter. Therefore, the final normalized polynomial is given by:

localid="1656315849650" L4~=1758x3-35x

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