ME 2142 Tutorial 1

February 3, 2020

Q1 Find the Laplace Transforms of the following two time functions:

Q2 Find the inverse Laplace transform of the following functions:

6s + 3
F (s) =
s2
5s + 2
F (s) =
(s + 1)(s + 2)2
s+1
F (s) =
s(s2 + s + 1)

Q3 By applying the final value theorem, find the value limt→∞ f (t) where f (t)
has the Laplace transform of
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F (s) =
s(s + 1)

Q4 Find the solution of the following differential equation

ẍ + 2ξωn ẋ + ωn2 = 0

where x(0) = a, ẋ(0) = b and ξ, ωn are parameters that are non-negative.

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Q5 Obtain the transfer function X o (s)
Xi (s) for each of the three mechanical sys-
tems shown. In the diagrams xi (t) denotes the input displacement and xo (t)
the output displacement (Assume that each displacement is measured from its
equilibrium position).