Laplace Transforms and Their Applications to Differential Equations

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TRANSFORMS

AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
TO DIFFERENTIAL
EQUATIONS

LAPLACE
TRANSFORMS

AND TILEIR APPLICATIONS
TO DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

N. W. MCLACHLAN

DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC
Minton, New YORK
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PREFACE

‘Tans book in inlndet saan introduction to Medern Operations?
fatten based pon the Lagluoe traeform, I writen For
pes-gmduite engine and rachnologiate. Neverthclem the
dputsly maitenatical part may be wlu! to advanoed under
Fradustes in wthematine, ‘he anbject haa attracted anc
‘utention during che past threc decals, owing Lurely la ie
relevance to Hoaviside's operational method. Tho Laplace
‘ranaform of function ae defined by (1) § CL, iadurtleal with
‘what Heaviside culled ita operational form. ‘The L'1- method
of subvieg ovdinary and partial linear difieratial equtians bs of
Ccomparstively occu date, Reiag logical and unambiguous, it
Js pisforal to that of Heaviside, which may now be hi to
eet i allie glory wich f the mare of arantitio progres

‘nub of theorems or rule ar catlished in Choptet I,
the proofs umualy being more consplel then thoue given argh
uly. Theorouts 6, 6,0, snd 14° wenew. In Chaptera II-VI
the various theonema wre wel @) la solve oelinary and partial
Tinea dilfesuls] equesions, (6) to cralnate diol iningeos,
(0 to obtsia mathornatialeslationshipe and expansions, (2)
desive LTS. of vasious fetions.Incliinn of s modern
twatmnant of periodie impale of finite wed inSniesizi] dubs
tn hase opom complex intgrstion scomed desimble, Accord:
ingly Chapter VIL in owe to thi subject, and it is récumé
of work I id during 1930-8. Tb ie uot intended for thse ut-
‘nequuinte with somplax integration, but it may provo an in-
centive 10 the study of this important brunch of athens
“The readar i advined to eomuuensh at Chapier T, No mathe.
mstctl texte ftoned to ie read ftom cover to cover Uke &
novel, Accoedingly the soctions marked * may be omitted in
‘fist zeoding, and roferenec mde to Usew frum tw to fine
vs the acoesaty ate.

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Chnpter 1, TE, nd the eaaly part of VECin reference [11]

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vis VREFACE

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citiied the proofs in detail, Mi, Meycae goneeovely under
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