Calculus 10th Edition

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Chapter 8 - Integration Techniques, L'Hopital's Rule, and Improper Integrals - 8.8 Exercises - Page 578: 95

Answer

$$F\left( s \right) = \frac{1}{s}$$

Work Step by Step

$$\eqalign{ & {\text{Let }}f\left( t \right) = 1 \cr & {\text{Find the Laplace Transform of the function }} \cr & F\left( s \right) = \int_0^\infty {{e^{ - st}}f\left( t \right)} dt, \cr & {\text{Substitute }}f\left( t \right) = 1{\text{ }} \cr & F\left( s \right) = \int_0^\infty {{e^{ - st}}\left( 1 \right)} dt \cr & F\left( s \right) = \int_0^\infty {{e^{ - st}}} dt \cr & {\text{By the Definition of Improper Integrals with Infinite }} \cr & {\text{Integration Limits}} \cr & \int_a^\infty {f\left( x \right)dx = \mathop {\lim }\limits_{b \to \infty } } \int_a^b {f\left( x \right)} dx,{\text{ then}} \cr & F\left( s \right) = \mathop {\lim }\limits_{b \to \infty } \int_0^b {{e^{ - st}}} dt \cr & {\text{Integrate }} \cr & F\left( s \right) = \mathop {\lim }\limits_{b \to \infty } \left[ { - \frac{1}{s}{e^{ - st}}} \right]_0^b \cr & F\left( s \right) = - \frac{1}{s}\mathop {\lim }\limits_{b \to \infty } \left[ {{e^{ - sb}} - {e^{s\left( 0 \right)}}} \right] \cr & F\left( s \right) = - \frac{1}{s}\mathop {\lim }\limits_{b \to \infty } \left[ {{e^{ - sb}} - 1} \right] \cr & {\text{Evaluate the limit when }}b \to \infty ,{\text{ }}s > 0 \cr & F\left( s \right) = - \frac{1}{s}\left[ {{e^{ - s\left( \infty \right)}} - 1} \right] \cr & F\left( s \right) = - \frac{1}{s}\left[ {0 - 1} \right] \cr & F\left( s \right) = \frac{1}{s} \cr} $$
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