6/5/2017 DifferentialEquationsLaplaceTransforms

LaplaceTransforms
AswesawinthelastsectioncomputingLaplacetransformsdirectlycanbefairlycomplicated.Usuallywe
justuseatableoftransformswhenactuallycomputingLaplacetransforms.Thetablethatisprovidedhere
isnotaninclusivetable,butdoesincludemostofthecommonlyusedLaplacetransformsandmostofthe
commonlyneededformulaspertainingtoLaplacetransforms.

Beforedoingacoupleofexamplestoillustratetheuseofthetableletsgetaquickfactoutoftheway.

Fact
Givenf(t)andg(t)then,

foranyconstantsaandb.

Inotherwords,wedontworryaboutconstantsandwedontworryaboutsumsordifferencesoffunctionsin
takingLaplacetransforms.Allthatweneedtodoistakethetransformoftheindividualfunctions,thenput
anyconstantsbackinandaddorsubtracttheresultsbackup.

So,letsdoacoupleofquickexamples.

Example1FindtheLaplacetransformsofthegivenfunctions.
(a) [Solution]
(b) [Solution]
(c) [Solution]
(d) [Solution]

Solution
Okay,theresnotreallyawholelottodohereotherthangotothetable,
transformtheindividualfunctionsup,putanyconstantsbackinand
thenaddorsubtracttheresults.

Welldotheseexamplesinalittlemoredetailthanistypicallyused
sincethisisthefirsttimewereusingthetables.

(a)

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