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Integration with a step function??
How do you go about integrating a function that has parameters "x" and "delta" where "delta" is a step function of "x" (delta is 1 for x>0, 0.5 for x=0, and 0 for x<0)??
I don't remember doing anything like this in any of my math classes before :(
No clue as to where to even start? Do you divide up the integrals to include the different ranges for the step functions? So like, integral of whole function from negative infinity to 0 and then from 0 to positive infinity? Except that doesn't make sense to me either...
Homework Statement
How do you go about integrating a function that has parameters "x" and "delta" where "delta" is a step function of "x" (delta is 1 for x>0, 0.5 for x=0, and 0 for x<0)??
I don't remember doing anything like this in any of my math classes before :(
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The Attempt at a Solution
No clue as to where to even start? Do you divide up the integrals to include the different ranges for the step functions? So like, integral of whole function from negative infinity to 0 and then from 0 to positive infinity? Except that doesn't make sense to me either...