(For the sake of completeness, we include a proof here. By the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, the function
has the derivative
. Since
is
-periodic,
we see that
for all
, whence there is a constant
such that
for all
. In particular, it follows that
. Thus we obtain
for all
, which finishes the proof.)
Thus, the integral over some interval of length
is equal to the integral over any such interval. In case
is given on the interval
rather than
, we can calculate the Fourier coefficients as follows:
.