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Given the periodic CT signal

$ \,x(t)=\frac{3\pi}{2}\cos(\frac{3\pi}{2}t+\pi)\sin(\frac{3\pi}{4}t+\frac{\pi}{2})\, $

compute its Fourier series coefficients.

Answer

We can rewrite the signal $ x(t) $ as

$ \,x(t)=\frac{3\pi}{2}(\frac{e^{j(\frac{3\pi}{2}t+\pi)}+e^{-j(\frac{3\pi}{2}t+\pi)}}{2})(\frac{e^{j(\frac{3\pi}{4}t+\frac{\pi}{2})}-e^{-j(\frac{3\pi}{4}t+\frac{\pi}{2})}}{2j})\, $

$ \,x(t)=\frac{3\pi}{8j}(e^{j(\frac{3\pi}{2}t)}e^{j\pi}+e^{-j(\frac{3\pi}{2}t)}e^{j\pi})(e^{j(\frac{3\pi}{4}t)}e^{j\frac{\pi}{2}}-e^{-j(\frac{3\pi}{4}t)}e^{j\frac{\pi}{2}})\, $

$ \,x(t)=\frac{3\pi}{8j}e^{j\pi}e^{j\frac{\pi}{2}}(e^{j(\frac{3\pi}{2}t)}+e^{-j(\frac{3\pi}{2}t)})(e^{j(\frac{3\pi}{4}t)}-e^{-j(\frac{3\pi}{4}t)})\, $

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