The Inverse Laplace Transform: Complex Integration 2.2 2002/02/20 2002/07/19 00:00:00.002 GMT-5 Steven Cox cox@rice.edu Charlet Reedstrom charlet@rice.edu Jacob Grabczewski jgrab@owlnet.rice.edu Steven Cox cox@rice.edu laplace inverse laplace transform (Blank Abstract)

The Inverse Laplace Transform If q is a rational function with poles λ j j 1 … h then the inverse Laplace transform of q is ℒ q t 1 2 z C q z z t where C is a curve that encloses each of the poles of q. As a result ℒ q t j 1 h res λ j Let us put this lovely formula to the test. We take our examples from discussion of the Laplace Transform and the inverse Laplace Transform. Let us first compute the inverse Laplace Transform of q z 1 z 1 2 According to it is simply the residue of q z z t at z -1 , i.e., res -1 z -1 z z t t t This closes the circle on the example begun in the discussion of the Laplace Transform and continued in exercise one for chapter 6. For our next example we recall ℒ x 1 s 0.19 s 2 1.5 s 0.27 s 16 4 s 3 1.655 s 2 0.4978 s 0.0039 from the Inverse Laplace Transform. Using numde, sym2poly and residue, see fib4.m for details, returns r 1 0.0029 262.8394 -474.1929 -1.0857 -9.0930 -0.3326 211.3507 and p 1 -1.3565 -0.2885 -0.1667 -0.1667 -0.1667 -0.1667 -0.0100 You will be asked in the exercises to show that this indeed jibes with the x 1 t 211.35 t 100 0.0554 t 3 4.5464 t 2 1.085 t 474.19 t 6 -329 t 400 262.842 73 t 16 262.836 73 t 16 achieved in the Laplace Transform via ilaplace.