Learning objectives

• Solve initial values problems for constant coefficient linear DEs using a table of laplace transforms
• Survey variety of properties of the laplace transform
• Work with the Dirac delta function

Before class

• Read Borrelli-Coleman Chapter 5.
• Short Table of Laplace Transforms
• Notes on pulses and the Dirac delta function

In class

• Work problems on laplace transforms
• Problems on the transfer function, solution