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Laplace Transforms

A slecture by Yijia Wen

7.0 Abstract

Sometimes an ODE can be really complex and hard to solve by any basic methods we have looked at in previous tutorials. For example, it may involve exponential functions, trigonometric functions, Heaviside functions, and anything else you can imagine. Hence, a famous mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace found a transform method, which converts the functions in "time-domain" to "complex number-domain", to overcome the problem. It is great as it transforms the calculation of differentiation and integration to the simple algebraic calculation.


7.1 Concept


7.2 Linearity of Laplace Transform


7.3 Heaviside Unit Step Function for Discontinuous Functions


7.4 Exercises


7.5 References

Institute of Natural and Mathematical Science, Massey University. (2017). 160.204 Differential Equations I: Course materials. Auckland, New Zealand.

Robinson, J. C. (2003). An introduction to ordinary differential equations. New York, NY., USA: Cambridge University Press.

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