What practical problems in the world can I apply Laplace Transforms to solve a $2^{nd}$ order ODE?

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Kirchoff's Law for circuits is the most obvious answer... but other than that, I haven't been able to find any examples where Laplace Transforms can be used to solve a model of interesting real life examples.

If anyone has any examples of some ideas to look up, or any links/books to read on this area, then that would be great.

Thanks in advance.

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First thing to note here:

Differential Equation $\to$ Laplace Transform $\to$ Algebraic Equation

So basically its unifying two different branches of mathematics. As far as I have known (I am not a Physics guy) L.T. is applied to circuit studies as you have mentioned. Like Fourier Transform, L.T. is also used in signal processing. For a more detailed reference you can check this out.

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