The exam will be cumulative, covering all of the material from the first three exams, as well as the new material listed below.
A few topics are not covered on the final exam. These omitted topics are listed below, as well.
Final Exam Topics
- All material from the first three exams, found at Midterm I Topics, Midterm II Topics, nad
Midterm III Topics
- Material from Section 10.4
- Convolution
- The Convolution Theorem (products of Laplace transforms)
- Using the Convolution Theorem to find Laplace transforms and inverse Laplace transforms
- Material from Section 10.5
- The unit step function
- Representing a discontinuous function using unit step functions
- Using the theorem for translation on the t-axis to find Laplace transforms of piecewise continuous
functions
- Using the theorem for translation on the t-axis to find inverse Laplace transforms.
- The exam will not cover the following:
- Exact first order differential equations - part of Section 1.6
- Differential equations of order higher than two - part of Ch. 2
- Solving systems of differential equations using the Laplace transform -
Section 10.2