The Johns Hopkins University 520.

353 - Control Systems

Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Fall 2009

Homework #1

This homework consists of 4 problems. Please show how you arrived at your solution in full detail!

1. Compute the bilateral Laplace transform of each of the following signals, and specify the region
of convergence:
(
e−t t < 0
(a) f (t) =
3e−2t t ≥ 0
(
0 t<0
(b) f (t) = −2t
2e3t − 2e t≥0

2. Compute the unilateral Laplace transform of each of the following signals:

(
0 t<2
(a) f (t) =
e−(t−2) t ≥ 2
(b) f (t) = (t3 + t cos t)u(t), where u(t) denotes the unit step function
(c) f (t) = sin t ∗ sin t, t ≥ 0
(d) f (t) = cos t · cos 2t, t ≥ 0

3. Find the right-sided function whose Laplace transform is given by:

s+3
(a) · e−s
(s2
+ 5s + 11)
2(s + 1)
(b)
(s + 9)(s2 + 1)
(s + 1)
(c) 2
s + 2s + 5

4. Solve the following ordinary differential equations using Laplace transforms:

(a) ẍ + 8ẋ + 25x = 5 sin 3t, 0 initial conditions
(b) ẍ + 2ẋ + x = 5e−2t + t with initial conditions x(0) = 2, ẋ(0) = 1

1 Prepared by Danielle C. Tarraf

Last updated on September 3, 2009