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do you know anyhting about the laplace transform
Hi, Bob,
Not so much, I'm afraid. It has been a long time and I don't have the original books with me here. All I can recall is:
1. It is an integral, where, given some function f(t), you produce a new function, F(s) by:
F(s) =
{inf
| f(t) exp(-st) dt
}0
2. It is used to solve certain classes of differential equations in which you form the transform of the equation, do some algebra to solve, (could be a lot) then perform the inverse transform. A lot of the time, you simply look up the transform (or inverse) in a standard table.
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