The Laplace Transform of Common Functions of Time

TABLE 2.1 Summary of Laplace Transform Properties and Theorems Property/Theorem Time Domain c1 f1 ( t ) + c2 f2 ( t ) + + cn fn ( t ) Complex Frequency Domain c1 F1 ( s ) + c2 F2 ( s ) + + cn Fn ( s ) e as F(s)

Linearity

2 3 4 5 6 7

Time Shifting Frequency Shifting Time Scaling

f ( t a )u 0 ( t a ) e as f(t)

F(s + a) 1 s -- F -- a a sF ( s ) f ( 0 ) d ---- F ( s ) ds F(s) f (0 ) ---------- + -----------s s

f ( at )

Time Differentiation d ---- f ( t ) See also (2.18) through (2.20) dt Frequency Differentiation See also (2.22) Time Integration
tf ( t ) t

f ( ) d
f( t) ------t f ( t + nT )

Frequency Integration

s F ( s ) d s
------------------------------ sT 1e

Time Periodicity

0 f ( t ) e

st

dt

10 11 12 13

Initial Value Theorem Final Value Theorem Time Convolution Frequency Convolution

lim f ( t ) t0 lim f ( t ) t f 1 ( t )*f 2 ( t ) f 1 ( t )f 2 ( t )

lim sF ( s ) = f ( 0 ) s lim sF ( s ) = f ( ) s0 F 1 ( s )F 2 ( s ) 1 ------- F 1 ( s )*F 2 ( s ) 2j

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The Laplace Transform of Common Waveforms

using the frequency shifting property of (2.14), we replace s with s + a , and we get
e
at

s+a cos t u 0 ( t ) ------------------------------2 2 (s + a) +

(2.66)

for > 0 and a > 0 . For easy reference, we have summarized the above derivations in Table 2.2.
TABLE 2.2 Laplace Transform Pairs for Common Functions f (t) F(s) 1s 1s
2

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

u0 ( t ) t u0 ( t ) t u0 ( t ) (t) (t a) e
at n

---------n+1 s 1 e
as

n!

u0 ( t ) u0 ( t )

1 ---------s+a n! ------------------------n+1 (s + a) ---------------2 2 s + s ---------------2 2 s + ------------------------------2 2 (s + a) + s+a ------------------------------2 2 (s + a) +

t e

n at

sin t u 0 ( t ) cos t u 0 ( t )
at

sin t u 0 ( t ) cos t u 0 ( t )

at

2.4 The Laplace Transform of Common Waveforms

In this section, we will present some examples for deriving the Laplace transform of several waveforms using the transform pairs of Tables 1 and 2.
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