Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-short-options-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2015/5/b/ii/solution

An impulse at shifts the causal sine response. Substituting the Dirac delta in the convolution from part (i), or using the Laplace transform time-shift rule, gives
where is the Heaviside step function. The answer is continuous at , while its first derivative jumps from to . Consequently its second distributional derivative contains exactly one unit Dirac delta at , giving . Since , both initial conditions vanish.

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