Solving a Mass-spring-damped system with Laplace

**tactical** · April 28th 2010, 02:13 PM

the equation is given, $x'' + 4x' + 4x = f(t)$

where f(t) = { t , 0 < t < 2 ; 0 , 2 < t }

I am having trouble getting the laplace of the $f(t)$ function.

I believe you would get L{f(t)} == L { [1 - H(t-2)]t }

Which would be L{t} - L{ t*H( t-2 ) }

Which I think would be $1/u^2 - (e^-2u)/u^2$

Which Is $(1-e^-2u)/u^2$ , but this is incorrect.

The solution is $1/u^2 - (e^-2u)[2/s +1/u^2]$

is there anyone that could help me? Thank you in advance