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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2005 Paper 2 5 Solution by
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The one-sided Laplace transform is for sufficiently large . Integration by parts, with the exponential suppressing the upper boundary, givesDifferentiation under the integral gives , proving . Start with and apply this rule repeatedly:With all three initial data zero, transforming the forced equation gives . Thus and the listed inverse transform givesThe cubic factor is also the resonant exponential particular solution associated with the triple characteristic root .
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