SECOND ORDER

DIFFERENTIAL
EQUATION
Laplace Transform - characteristics

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SECOND ORDER
general form

Homogenous Non-Homogenous

1. Undetermined coefficient method

2. Variation parameters method
3. Laplace transform
Theorem 1: Linearity

and are constant

Example

Theorem 2: First shift

Example

Change s to (s-a)
Theorem 3: Multiply with

Example

Differentiate 2 times because

 
L { f (t )}   f (t )e  st dt  F ( s )
0

f (t ) F (s ) f (t ) F (s )

TABLE OF a
a
s
H (t  a ) e  as
s

LAPLACE
n!
t n , n  1, 2, 3,  n 1
f (t  a) H (t  a) e  as F (s )
s
1
 (t  a )

TRANSFORM
e at e  as
sa
a
sin at 2 2
f (t ) (t  a ) e  as f (a)
s a
s t
cos at
s2  a2  0
f (u )g (t  u )du F ( s ).G ( s )

a
sinh at y (t ) Y (s )
s2  a2
s
cosh at y (t ) sY ( s )  y (0)
s2  a2

e at f (t ) F ( s  a) y (t ) s 2Y ( s )  sy (0)  y (0)

n n d n F (s)
t f (t ) , n  1, 2, 3,  (1)
ds n
GROUP WORK
Find the Laplace Transform