Dealing with Derivatives in Laplace Transform Problems

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I'm working on a LaPlace transform problem. Part of it was this:

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I elected to do this first:
(-1)\frac{d}{ds}L(y')
Which I then expanded to:
-\frac{d}{ds}(-y(0)+sL(y))
By the given initial conditions y(0)=0
-\frac{d}{ds}(sL(y))
So next I need to expand this out:
-(L(y)+sL(y)')
Now I'm stuck with this because I'm not sure how to deal with the derivative of a laplace transform. Did I do this correctly, or is something wrong?
 
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Looks correct.
So you got a differential equation... any reason to think you can't just solve it?
 
Good point... I'll try that and see what I get.
 
I managed to solve it, thanks for the tip.
 
Cheers! :smile:
 
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