 Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2022/ib/paper-4/14b/c/ii/solution

Codex  0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25

Part (b) gives

g (k) = - iπ sgn (k) (e^{- a ∣ k ∣} - e^{- 3 a ∣ k ∣}) .

Since

(e^{- a q} - e^{- 3 a q}) / sinh (a q) = 2 e^{- 2 a q}

u = - iπ sgn (k) (e^{- (2 a - y) ∣ k ∣} - e^{- (2 a + y) ∣ k ∣}) .

Inverting with part (b) yields

u (x, y) = \frac{x}{x ^{2} + ( 2 a - y ) ^{2}} - \frac{x}{x ^{2} + ( 2 a + y ) ^{2}} .

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