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TheDeinition
Youknow,itsalwaysalittlescarywhenwedevoteawholesectionjusttothedefinitionof
something.Laplacetransforms(orjusttransforms)canseemscarywhenwefirststartlookingatthem.
However,aswewillsee,theyarentasbadastheymayappearatfirst.
BeforewestartwiththedefinitionoftheLaplacetransformweneedtogetanotherdefinitionoutoftheway.
Afunctioniscalledpiecewisecontinuousonanintervaliftheintervalcanbebrokenintoafinitenumberof
subintervalsonwhichthefunctioniscontinuousoneachopensubinterval(i.e.thesubintervalwithoutits
endpoints)andhasafinitelimitattheendpointsofeachsubinterval.Belowisasketchofapiecewise
continuousfunction.
Inotherwords,apiecewisecontinuousfunctionisafunctionthathasafinitenumberofbreaksinitand
doesntblowuptoinfinityanywhere.
Now,letstakealookatthedefinitionoftheLaplacetransform.
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/DE/LaplaceDefinition.aspx 1/1