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Laplace Transforms
12 Inverse Laplace Transforms (Chapter Two)
(a) Definitions:
i) Inverse Laplace transform S-42
ii) Notation of Inverse Laplace transform S-1
(b) Some important properties of inverse Laplace transformation:
i) Linearity property
If c1 and c2 are any constants while F1 (t ) and F2 (t ) are functions of t> 0
with Laplace transforms f1 ( s) and f 2 ( s) respectively, then
L1 c1 f1 (s)  c2 f 2 (s)  c1L1  f1 (s)  c2 L1  f 2 (s)  c1F1 (t )  c2 F2 (t )
S-43 (Thm-2-2)
ii) First translation or shifting property
If L  f (s)  F (t ) then show that L  f ( s  a)  e F (t ) S-43 (Thm-2-3)
1 1 at

iii) Second translation or shifting property

 F (t  a) when t  a
G (t )  
If L  f (s)  F (t ) and
1
0 when t  a then show that

 
L1 e a s f (s)  G(t ) . S-44 (Thm-2-4), S-
iv) Change of scale property

If L  f (s)  F (t ) then show that    a a .

1 1 t
1 L f a s  F( )

S-44 (Thm-2-5), S-
i) Inverse Laplace transformation of multiplication
 dn 
If L  f (s)  F (t ) then show that
1
L 1
f n
( s ) 
 L 1 
 n f (s)   (1) t F (t ) where n  1, 2,3,.....
 ds 
n n

. S-
44 (Thm-2-6)
ii) Inverse Laplace transformation ofdivision

1  f  s  
  t
L     F (u ) du
If L1  f (s)  F (t ) then show that  s  0 . S-45 (Thm-2-9)
iii) The Inverse Convolution theorem

t
L1  f ( s) g (s )   F (u ) G (t  u ) du  F * G
If L1  f (s)  F (t ) and L1 g (s)  G(t ) then show that 0 . S-
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(c) Problems:
Prove that the following:
 1  at
L1  e
i) s  a S –47-1(a)
 1  sin at
L1  2 
ii)  s  a2  a S –47-1(c)
 1  tn
L1  n1  
iii)  s   n  1! S –48-2
 6s 
L1  2   6 cosh 4t
iv)  s  16  S –48-3(e)
Find the inverse Laplace transform of the following:
 5s  4 2s  18 24  30 s 
L1  2  2  
v) 
 s s  9 s4  S –49-5(a)
 6s  4 
L1  2 
vi)  s  4 s  20  S –49-7(a)
 1 
L1  
vii)  2s  3  S –49-5(d)
 e5s 
1 
L  4
viii)   s  2   S –51-9(a)

1   s  1 e
  s 

L  2 
ix)  s  s  1  S –51-9(c)
 
1  s 
L  
 
2
 s2  a 
x)   S –57-22(a)
 
1  1 
L  
 
2
 s2 s2  1 
xi)   S –57-22(b)
 3s  7 
L1  2 
xii)  s  2s  3  S –58-24
 5s 2  15s  11 
L1  3
xiii)   s  1 s  2   S –59-26
 
1  s 2  2s  3 
L  2 
xiv)  2

 s  2s  2 s  2s  5   S –60-28