This chapter includes notes on Special Functions: Unit Step Function, Unit Impulse Function, Periodic Functions, Gamma Functions & Beta Functions and using Laplace Transforms on them. Each section includes multiple worked examples. Notes were taken on an iPad
, Laplace transforms are not only
easy
to manipulate
SPECIAL FUNCTIONS they also allow us to deal with discontinuous functions
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