Partial fraction expansion.

Jos Ulises Romero Varela, Marco Antonio Gallardo Long,

Departamento de Mecatrnica,ITESM CEM
A01161455@itesm.mx A01166732@itesm.mx

Abstract- In this document the reader can learn how to solve step by step a partial-fraction expansion when the roots of the denominator are complex and imaginary. Also the reader will strengthen their knowledge about partial fractions. I.

II.

PARTIAL-FRACTION EXPANSION
(COMPLEX AND IMAGINARY). For this example we first use the partial fraction expansion and then we apply the quadratic formula to have the following:

INTRODUCTION

Talking about Laplace transform we can said that is an operational method that help us to solve linear differential equations and to convert functions into algebraic functions. This means that we dont have ton integrate or differentiate because Laplace Transform substitutes this operations (in a complex plan s). It is important to remember that any complex number can be expressed in polar coordinates or we can express each magnitude and angle.

Figure 2.- Example of partial-fraction expansion.

As we can see, our roots are complex because b^2-4*a*c < 0. Then we apply the following steps to get our solution:
Figure 1.- Complex vector with magnitude and angle.

We can also work with the inverse Laplace Transform and everything we need to do in order to solve these functions is use partial-fraction expansion and some tables. There are many cases, for example, when the roots of the denominator are real and distinct, when the roots of the denominator are real and repeated or when the roots of the denominator are complex and imaginary (this document will be based on the last one).

Figure 3.- Continuation of partial-fraction example.

And then we need to make the product of our denominators with our numerators (left with right):

Figure 4.- Continuation of partial-fraction exercise.

From this equations we obtain that A=-1/5, B= 1/5, C=4/5 and now we can solve our partial-fraction expansion and found the inverse Laplace transform.

Figure 5.- Continuation of partial-fraction example.

And finally we obtain our inverse Laplace transform and with the help of tables we get our final solution.

Figgure 6.- Final result of partial-fraction example.

III. CONCLUSSIONS. With this exercise we can realize that Laplace Transform and inverse Laplace transform can help us to evaluate systems and processes in which it would be complicated if we want to do it with exponential functions, sin or cos functions. We can also see that we need to dominate Laplace functions in order to get inverse Laplace functions and to apply theorems correctly. IV. REFERENCES. Figueroa , G. (n.d.). Ecuaciones diferenciales. la transformada de laplace.. Retrieved from http://www.tecdigital.itcr.ac.cr/revistamatematica/cursoslinea/EcuacionesDiferenciales/EDO-Geo/edo-cap5geo/laplace/node4.html