Periodic Function

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In mathematics, a periodic function is a function that repeats its values in regular intervals or periods. The most important examples are the trigonometric functions, which repeat over intervals of length 2¿. Periodic functions are used throughout science to describe oscillations, waves, and other phenomena that exhibit periodicity. Geometrically, a periodic function can be defined as a function whose graph exhibits translational symmetry. Specifically, a function f is periodic with period P if the graph of f is invariant under translation in the x-direction by a distance of P. This definition of periodic can be extended to other geometric shapes and patterns, such as periodic tessellations of the plane.