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    Differential Equations (Lecture 3) 9 October 2009

    6. Laplace transform of the Heaviside function


    Recall that the Heaviside (step) function is defined as follows
    (
    1, if x > a
    H(x − a) =
    0, if x < a

    Show that the Laplace transform of the Heaviside function is given by


    1 −as
    L{H(x − a)} = e
    s

    7. Laplace transforms involving error functions


    Recall the definitions of the error function
    Z x
    2 2
    erf (x) = √ e−y dy
    π 0

    and the complementary error function


    Z ∞
    2 2
    erf c(x) = 1 − erf (x) = √ e−y dy
    π x

    Note that
    erf (0) = 0, erf (∞) = 1, erf (−x) = −erf (x)

    Exercise 1: Calculate the following Laplace transforms


      r
    1 π
    L √ =
    x s
    √
    r
    1 π
    L{2 x} =
    s s

    Exercise 2: Show the following identities:


    n  x o 1 2 2
    L erf = ea s · erf c(as)
      2a  s
    a 1 √
    L erf √ = (1 − e−a s )
    2 x s
       √
    a 1
    L erf c √ = e−a s
    2 x s
    √
     ax √ a
    L e · erf ( ax) = √
    s (s − a)
    √ 1
    L eax · erf c( ax) = √ √
    
    √
    s ( s + a)

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