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Hi all,
I am a bit rusty and have hit a snag with decomposition of partial fractions, I am taking an Engineering course dealing with Laplace transforms. The example is:
F(s)= 3 / s(s2+2s+5)
Now I get that there are complex roots in the denominator and that there are conjugate complex roots (s+1±2i) giving:
F(s)= 3 / s(s+1-2i)(s+1-2i)
So partial fraction decomposition would give:
F(s) = K1/s + K2/(s+1+2i) + K3/(s+1-2i)
Ok, so solving for K1= 3/5 is easy and I get that, but when it comes to K2 which involves substituting (-1-2i) in for 's' and then expanding, I can't seem to get the answer. What I did was:
K2=3[STRIKE](s+1+2i)[/STRIKE]/s(s+1-2i)[STRIKE](s+1+2i)[/STRIKE]
K2=3/s(s+1-2i)
K2=3/(-1-2i)[(-1-2i)+1-2i)]
It is the algebraic expansion on the denominator that is getting me. When I do it I get:
(-1-2i)[(-1-2i)+1-2i)]
= (-1-2i)(0-4i)
=-1(-4i)-2i(-4i)
=4i+8i2
=8+4i
=4(2+i)
However my textbook gets -3/20 (2+i) for the final partial fraction... I'm lost any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am a bit rusty and have hit a snag with decomposition of partial fractions, I am taking an Engineering course dealing with Laplace transforms. The example is:
F(s)= 3 / s(s2+2s+5)
Now I get that there are complex roots in the denominator and that there are conjugate complex roots (s+1±2i) giving:
F(s)= 3 / s(s+1-2i)(s+1-2i)
So partial fraction decomposition would give:
F(s) = K1/s + K2/(s+1+2i) + K3/(s+1-2i)
Ok, so solving for K1= 3/5 is easy and I get that, but when it comes to K2 which involves substituting (-1-2i) in for 's' and then expanding, I can't seem to get the answer. What I did was:
K2=3[STRIKE](s+1+2i)[/STRIKE]/s(s+1-2i)[STRIKE](s+1+2i)[/STRIKE]
K2=3/s(s+1-2i)
K2=3/(-1-2i)[(-1-2i)+1-2i)]
It is the algebraic expansion on the denominator that is getting me. When I do it I get:
(-1-2i)[(-1-2i)+1-2i)]
= (-1-2i)(0-4i)
=-1(-4i)-2i(-4i)
=4i+8i2
=8+4i
=4(2+i)
However my textbook gets -3/20 (2+i) for the final partial fraction... I'm lost any help would be greatly appreciated.