Chebyshev Polynomials - University of Waterloo
www.mhtl.uwaterloo.ca › courses › me755The Shifted Chebyshev Polynomials For analytical and numerical work it is often convenient to use the half interval 0 x 1 instead of the full interval 1 x 1. For this purpose the shifted Chebyshev polynomials are de ned: T n (x) = T n(2x 1) Thus we have for the rst few polynomials T 0 = 1 T 1 = 2x 1 T 2 = 8x 2 8x+ 1 T 3 = 32x 3 48x2 + 18x 1 T 4 ...