An Introduction to Laplace Transforms and Fourier Series

1. Front Matter

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2. The Laplace Transform

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   Pages 1-12

3. Further Properties of the Laplace Transform

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   Pages 13-36

4. Convolution and the Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations

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   Pages 37-77

5. Fourier Series

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   Pages 79-110

6. Partial Differential Equations

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   Pages 111-128

7. Fourier Transforms

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   Pages 129-155

8. Complex Variables and Laplace Transforms

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   Pages 157-183

9. Back Matter

   Pages 185-250

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This book has been primarily written for the student of mathematics who is in the second year or the early part of the third year of an undergraduate course. It will also be very useful for students of engineering and the physical sciences for whom Laplace Transforms continue to be an extremely useful tool. The book demands no more than an elementary knowledge of calculus and linear algebra of the type found in many first year mathematics modules for applied subjects. For mathematics majors and specialists, it is not the mathematics that will be challenging but the applications to the real world. The author is in the privileged position of having spent ten or so years outside mathematics in an engineering environment where the Laplace Transform is used in anger to solve real problems, as well as spending rather more years within mathematics where accuracy and logic are of primary importance. This book is written unashamedly from the point of view of the applied mathematician. The Laplace Transform has a rather strange place in mathematics. There is no doubt that it is a topic worthy of study by applied mathematicians who have one eye on the wealth of applications; indeed it is often called Operational Calculus.

• Derivative
• Fourier series
• Fourier transform
• calculus
• convolution
• differential equation
• step function

• University of Plymouth, Plymouth, Devon, UK

  Philip P. G. Dyke

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