Laplace transform applied to differential equations
The use of
Laplace transform makes it much easier to solve
linear differential equations.
First consider the folowing relations :
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Suppose we want to solve the given differential equation:
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this equation is equivalent to :
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which is equivalent to :
note that the are initial conditions.
Then all we need to find f(t) is to apply the Laplace inverse transform to
An example
We want to solve :
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with initial conditions f(0) = 0 and f ′(0)=0
we note :
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and we get :
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so this is equivalent to :
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we deduce :
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So we apply the Laplace inverse transform and get