I want to know what does it mean by the term including "laplace" word in Laplace Transform

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When I tried to solve an eqn analytically using Laplace Transform, the soln included the term laplace(qpl(t), t, s).
I do not know what does this mean?
The commands I entered as following:
>> clear E
>> syms fplc Rc Nc0 Kgr fplh Rh Nh0 Kel real
>> syms qpl(t) s
>> dqpl(t) = diff(qpl(t),t);
>> dqpl(t)= fplc*Rc*Nc0*exp(Kgr*t)+fplh*Rh*Nh0-Kel*qpl(t);
>> L(t)=laplace(dqpl(t),t,s)
L(t) =
(Nh0*Rh*fplh)/s - Kel*laplace(qpl(t), t, s) - (Nc0*Rc*fplc)/(Kgr - s)

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Star Strider
Star Strider on 7 May 2016
The Symbolic Math Toolbox denotes ‘laplace(qpl(t), t, s)’ as the Laplace transform of the ‘qpl(t)’ function. If you want to denote it in a more traditional form, use the subs function:
L(s) = laplace(dqpl(t),t,s)
L(s) =
(Nh0*Rh*fplh)/s - Kel*laplace(qpl(t), t, s) - (Nc0*Rc*fplc)/(Kgr - s)
L(s) = subs(L(s), {laplace(qpl(t), t, s)}, {QPL(s)})
L(s) =
(Nh0*Rh*fplh)/s - Kel*QPL(s) - (Nc0*Rc*fplc)/(Kgr - s)
This replaces ‘laplace(qpl(t), t, s)’ with ‘QPL(s)’. It is usually good to do this, expecially if you want to simplify your equation or solve for ‘QPL(s)’ later in your code, for example to calculate a transfer function.
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Esraa Abdelkhaleq
Esraa Abdelkhaleq on 9 May 2016
I want to know the solution steps of the equation as shown in the attached fig. I hope you can see the equations.
Star Strider
Star Strider on 9 May 2016
For whatever reason, the solve function refuses to solve ‘Laplace_Eqn’ for ‘QPL’ in the commented-out lines.
So, I decided to just directly solve it using the dsolve function:
syms fplc Rc Nc0 Kgr fplh Rh Nh0 Kel qpl(t) s QPL(s) qpl0 real
dqpl(t) = diff(qpl(t),t);
Eqn = dqpl(t) == fplc*Rc*Nc0*exp(Kgr*t)+fplh*Rh*Nh0-Kel*qpl(t);
qpl = dsolve(Eqn, qpl(0) == qpl0);
qpl = simplify(qpl, 'steps', 10)
% Laplace_Eqn = laplace(Eqn);
%
% Laplace_Eqn = subs(Laplace_Eqn, {laplace(qpl(t), t, s)}, {QPL(s)});
%
% Soln = solve(Laplace_Eqn, QPL, 'IgnoreAnalyticConstraints',true, 'IgnoreProperties',true);
The integrated (and simplified) differential equation:
qpl =
(Kel*Nh0*Rh*fplh + Kgr*Nh0*Rh*fplh + Kel*Nc0*Rc*fplc*exp(Kgr*t))/(Kel*(Kel + Kgr)) - exp(-Kel*t)*((Nh0*Rh*fplh)/Kel - qpl0 + (Nc0*Rc*fplc)/(Kel + Kgr))

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syed ali hasan kibria on 15 Dec 2020
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