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What is the output domain of the Laplace Transform Real VI?

I am surprised that I wasn't able to find a clear answer to this question anywhere, and I still feel like I must have overlooked an obvious answer.

 

Nonetheless, I have discrete time-domain signals (force and displacement for a spring-mass-damper system) that I am feeding into the Laplace Transform Real VI, with the intention of dividing the transformed force by the transformed displacement and making a second order polynomial fit of the s-domain data so that I can obtain the coefficients from (what I believe to be) a second-order force response. This all seems to be going perfectly well, but I have been working under the assumption that the Laplace Transform Real VI outputs an array that is in the s-domain, and not the time domain. Is this the case?

 

The Help page in the online Product Reference Manual (http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361J-01/lvanls/laplace_transform_real/) only says of the output, "Laplace {X} is the result of the Laplace transform as an array." However, the waveform chart shown as an example of the Laplace transform of Sin(t), for 0<t<6, also has its (unlabeled) independent axis ranging from 0 to 6, which is mainly where my confusion stems from.

 

Thanks very much for your help,

Tom

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Hi THO407,

 

Looking at the help page you linked, it seems that the axis ranges from 0 to 6 because that is the interval of the function that is being specified.

 

"The following diagram shows the real Laplace transform of the function f(t) = sin(t) in the interval (0, 6). This is entered on the front panel as end 6.00 and X values of sin(t) for 0  t  6."

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