How Should Exponential Terms Be Integrated in Fourier Transforms?

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Hi All! I've been looking at this Fourier Transform integral and I've realized that I'm not sure how to integrate the exponential term to infinity. I would expect the result to be infinity but that wouldn't give me a very useful function. So I've taken it to be zero but I have no idea if you can do this...
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With your current limits (with ##-\infty##) what you have done is wrong. The exponential will blow up at negative times. The integral will not converege.
 
Cryo said:
With your current limits (with ##-\infty##) what you have done is wrong. The exponential will blow up at negative times. The integral will not converege.

Thanks, I realize my mistake now. The limits should be zero to infinity as negative time is not possible
 
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