Thread: Finding the sum of a trigonometric series?

Find the sum of the series . You must calculate the sum of this series only by multiplying through by

Now I've heard of finding the sum of a trig series by finding real and imaginary parts etc., but I have no idea how to do it this way.

any help or advice is hugely appreciated!

thank you

Make repeated use of the trig identity

Originally Posted by BobP

Make repeated use of the trig identity

Hi Bob, thank you for that

could you possibly explain this further? would I do this by substituting?

Having multiplied throughout by consider a general term in the resulting series,

Use the trig identity to break this into two terms.

Apply this to each term of your series in turn, when you've done this, you should find that there is a whole lot of cancellation, after which you need to use the trig identity again.
Don't forget to divide the resulting expression by .