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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 2 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2017 Paper 1 4 d Solution by
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For an integrable applied voltage, the convolution theorem givesThe integrated electric current is the zero-frequency transform, . Since can be arbitrary, zero total electric charge for every such input is equivalent toFor nonzero , this can be writtenBecause both amplitudes are positive, nonzero must have opposite signs. If exactly one is zero there is no cancellation with positive amplitudes; if both vanish the kernel is identically zero and any amplitudes work. In particular, if both frequency parameters were additionally required to be positive, no such nontrivial system would exist. The PDF requires positivity of , but allows real fixed .
This is zero-frequency cancellation of a causal response kernel. The phrase arbitrary voltage is understood within a class for which the net-charge integrals exist; a permanent DC input need not have finite total charge.
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