Finding the Inverse Laplace Transform for Solving Fractional Equations

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Homework Statement



Compute the inverse Laplace transform of

Homework Equations



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The Attempt at a Solution


I tried using partial fraction but no luck.
 
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Partial fraction decomposition should work.
How did you try it?
 
Those transforms are already in the form you'd get from a partial fraction expansion so trying to expand them again should simply result in what you started with. Now it's just a matter of inverting each term using the table. Where are you getting stuck?
 
if i use Partial fraction decomposition, all fraction become zero!
 
vela is right.
Partial fraction decomposition does not work here.
You need a Laplace transform table.

But the fractions do not become zero.
How did you find zero?
 
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