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Taylor expansion of

1 + x

stevecheng
2013-03-21 20:13:52
The Taylor series for f (x) =

T (x) =

1 + x using the formula

X
f (k) (a)
k=0

k!

(x a)k

is given in the table below for the first few terms.


k

expansion

f (a)

f 0 (a) (x a)

2
3
4
5
6

f (2) (a)
(x a)2
2!
f (3) (a)
(x a)3
3!
f (4) (a)
(x a)4
4!
f (5) (a)
(x a)5
5!
f (6) (a)
(x a)6
6!
Table 1:

simplified

at a = 0

(1 + a)1/2
1
1
1
1/2
(1 + a)
(x a)
x
2
2
1
1
(1 + a)3/2 (x a)2
x2
8
8
3
1 3
5/2
3
(1 + a)
(x a)
x
48
16
15
5 4

(1 + a)7/2 (x a)4

x
384
128
105
7
(1 + a)9/2 (x a)5
x5
3840
256
945
21 6

(1 + a)11/2 (x a)6
x
46080
1024

Taylor Series for f (x) = 1 + x

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The general coefficient of the expansion, for n 2 is:


1
1
f (n) (a)
= 2 (1 + a) 2 n
n!
n



1
1
23 12 (n 1)
2n1
2 2
(1 + a) 2
=
n(n 1)(n 2) 1
1
( 12 )n1 1 3 (2n 3)
2n1
= 2
(1 + a) 2
n(n 1)(n 2) 1
2n1
(1)n1
(2n 3)!
=
(1 + a) 2
n
2 n! (2n 4)(2n 6) 2
2n1
(2n 3)!
= (1)n1 2n2
(1 + a) 2 .
2
n! (n 2)!

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