physical significance of dirac in inverse laplace

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i was working through this old electronics SE question. Initial conditions have the capacitor voltage and inductor current both zero.

circuit

Using Laplace we can find the voltage across the inductor, ${30s/(s+5)}$, which i then take the inverse Laplace of in MCAD and the result is:

inverse laplace

This represents the voltage across the inductor when the circuit is suddenly excited at t=0. The second term is understandable, a decaying exponential.

What is the physical significance of the dirac term (times 30)?

I simulated the circuit in transients analysis software and here is a plot of the first 100mS or so of voltage (switch closed at t=0.1 in the simulation). It eventually dies down to zero as expected.

initial voltage