Chebyshev Polynomials - University of Waterloo
www.mhtl.uwaterloo.ca › courses › me755We observe that the Chebyshev polynomials form an orthogonal set on the interval 1 x 1 with the weighting function (1 x2) 1=2 Orthogonal Series of Chebyshev Polynomials An arbitrary function f(x) which is continuous and single-valued, de ned over the interval 1 x 1, can be expanded as a series of Chebyshev polynomials: f(x) = A 0T 0(x) + A 1T 1 ...
Chebyshev Polynomials - johndcook.com
www.johndcook.com › ChebyshevPolynomialsChebyshev Polynomials John D. Cook∗ February 9, 2008 Abstract The Chebyshev polynomials are both elegant and useful. This note summarizes some of their elementary properties with brief proofs. 1 Cosines We begin with the following identity for cosines. cos((n + 1)θ) = 2cos(θ)cos(nθ) − cos((n − 1)θ) (1) This may be proven by applying ...