An Introduction to Laplace Transforms and Fourier Series

1. The Laplace Transform.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 The Laplace Transform.- 1.3 Elementary Properties.- 1.4 Exercises.- 2. Further Properties of the Laplace Transform.- 2.1 Real Functions.- 2.2 Derivative Property of the Laplace Transform.- 2.3 Heaviside’s Unit Step Function.- 2.4 Inverse Laplace Transform.- 2.5 Limiting Theorems.- 2.6 The Impulse Function.- 2.7 Periodic Functions.- 2.8 Exercises.- 3. Convolution and the Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Convolution.- 3.3 Ordinary Differential Equations.- 3.3.1 Second Order Differential Equations.- 3.3.2 Simultaneous Differential Equations.- 3.4 Using Step and Impulse Functions.- 3.5 Integral Equations.- 3.6 Exercises.- 4. Fourier Series.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Definition of a Fourier Series.- 4.3 Odd and Even Functions.- 4.4 Complex Fourier Series.- 4.5 Half Range Series.- 4.6 Properties of Fourier Series.- 4.7 Exercises.- 5. Partial Differential Equations.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Classification of Partial Differential Equations.- 5.3 Separation of Variables.- 5.4 Using Laplace Transforms to Solve PDEs.- 5.5 Boundary Conditions and Asymptotics.- 5.6 Exercises.- 6. Fourier Transforms.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Deriving the Fourier Transform.- 6.3 Basic Properties of the Fourier Transform.- 6.4 Fourier Transforms and PDEs.- 6.5 Signal Processing.- 6.6 Exercises.- 7. Complex Variables and Laplace Transforms.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Rudiments of Complex Analysis.- 7.3 Complex Integration.- 7.4 Branch Points.- 7.5 The Inverse Laplace Transform.- 7.6 Using the Inversion Formula in Asymptotics.- 7.7 Exercises.- A. Solutions to Exercises.- B. Table of Laplace Transforms.- C. Linear Spaces.- C.1 Linear Algebra.- C.2 Gramm-Schmidt Orthonormalisation Process.