MA2177 Exercise 3 – Laplace Transforms

1. Directly from definition, find the Laplace transform of

(a) sinh 2 5t

(b) (c)

2. Find the Laplace transform of the following functions:

(a) t 6  3t 4  t 2 (b) sin 2 t

(c) e t sin 2 t (d) e 3t 2 cos(4 t )  sin( 4 t )

t , 0  t  1 sin t , t  
(e) f (t )   (f) f (t )  
2 , t 1  t , t 

3. Find the inverse Laplace transform of the following functions:

s4 1
(a) (b) where a  b
2 ( s  a)(s  b)
s 4
5 s7
(c) (d)
2
( s  4) 3 s  2s  5
4 s2
(e) (f)
2 2 2
s  3s s ( s  9)

es
(g)
s 2 (s  2)

4. Solve the following initial value problems by using Laplace transform:

(a) y"3 y'2 y  4t , y(0)  4 , y' (0)  3
(b) y" y  t , y(0)  1 , y' (0)  1

(c) y"4 y '4 y  6e 2t , y(0)  2 , y ' (0 )  8

(d) y"2 y '5 y  4te t , y(0)  1 , y' (0)  0

(e) y" y  cos 3t , y (0 )  0 , y' (0)  2

2 , 0  t  1
(f) y" y  f (t ) , where f (t )   with y(0)  0 , y ' ( 0 )  1
t , t 1

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