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Mitu Raj
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Nothing to do with Laplace. Just some mathematics. I found that you have dimensional inconsistency while you converted units. For instance in this equation :- $$I_1(s)=\frac{20}{s+1}$$ The dimension of current is AmperesmilliAmperes, hence the whole RHS should evaluate to 'Amperes''milliAmperes' units as well.

\$s\$ has units 1/sms as you explained. Okay, so in the term \$(s+1)\$, '1' should be also be representing a quantity of units 1/sms, otherwise we cannot add them dimensionally. ie., \$(s+1)\$ has the units 1/sms.

Which means, whatever the numerator '20' is representing, is not of units AmperesmilliAmperes as you assumed, but of units 'Amperes'milliAmperes per second'millisecond' or AmA/sms. Otherwise the whole RHS becomes dimensionally incorrect.

So when you evaluate the expression for \$I_2(s)\$ , where \$s\$ is in terms of 1/mss now, you not only have to multiply each term in the denominator by 1000 (which you have done correctly), but also have to multiply the numerator by 1000 because of the 'per second'millisecond' thing which you missed out there. And also to convert milliAmperes to Amperes, divide the numerator by 1000 as well. ie.,

$$I_2(s) = \frac{(\frac{20}{1000}.1000)}{1000e} A = \frac{0.02}{e}A$$

I hope this clears why your answer differs by a factor of \$10^-3\$

Nothing to do with Laplace. Just some mathematics. I found that you have dimensional inconsistency while you converted units. For instance in this equation :- $$I_1(s)=\frac{20}{s+1}$$ The dimension of current is Amperes, hence the whole RHS should evaluate to 'Amperes' units as well.

\$s\$ has units 1/s as you explained. Okay, so in the term \$(s+1)\$, '1' should be also be representing a quantity of units 1/s, otherwise we cannot add them dimensionally. ie., \$(s+1)\$ has the units 1/s.

Which means, whatever the numerator '20' is representing, is not of units Amperes as you assumed, but of units 'Amperes per second' or A/s. Otherwise the whole RHS becomes dimensionally incorrect.

So when you evaluate the expression for \$I_2(s)\$ , where \$s\$ is in terms of 1/ms now, you not only have to multiply each term in the denominator by 1000 (which you have done correctly), but also have to multiply the numerator by 1000 because of the 'per second' thing which you missed out there.

I hope this clears why your answer differs by a factor of \$10^-3\$

Nothing to do with Laplace. Just some mathematics. I found that you have dimensional inconsistency while you converted units. For instance in this equation :- $$I_1(s)=\frac{20}{s+1}$$ The dimension of current is milliAmperes, hence the whole RHS should evaluate to 'milliAmperes' units as well.

\$s\$ has units 1/ms as you explained. Okay, so in the term \$(s+1)\$, '1' should be also be representing a quantity of units 1/ms, otherwise we cannot add them dimensionally. ie., \$(s+1)\$ has the units 1/ms.

Which means, whatever the numerator '20' is representing, is not of units milliAmperes as you assumed, but of units 'milliAmperes per millisecond' or mA/ms. Otherwise the whole RHS becomes dimensionally incorrect.

So when you evaluate the expression for \$I_2(s)\$ , where \$s\$ is in terms of 1/s now, you not only have to multiply each term in the denominator by 1000 (which you have done correctly), but also have to multiply the numerator by 1000 because of the 'per millisecond' thing which you missed out there. And also to convert milliAmperes to Amperes, divide the numerator by 1000 as well. ie.,

$$I_2(s) = \frac{(\frac{20}{1000}.1000)}{1000e} A = \frac{0.02}{e}A$$

I hope this clears why your answer differs by a factor of \$10^-3\$

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Mitu Raj
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Nothing to do with Laplace. Just some mathematics. I found that you have dimensional inconsistency while you converted units. For instance in this equation :- $$I_1(s)=\frac{20}{s+1}$$ The dimension of current is Amperes, hence the whole RHS should evaluate to 'Amperes' units as well.

\$s\$ has units 1/s as you explained. Okay, so in the term \$(s+1)\$, '1' should be also be representing a quantity of units 1/s, otherwise we cannot add them dimensionally. ie., \$(s+1)\$ has the units 1/s.

Which means, whatever the numerator '20' is representing, is not of units Amperes as you assumed, but of units 'Amperes per second' or A/s. Otherwise the whole RHS becomes dimensionally incorrect.

So when you evaluate the expression for \$I_2(s)\$ , where \$s\$ is in terms of 1/ms now, you not only have to multiply each term in the denominator by 1000 (which you have done correctly), but also have to multiply the numerator by 1000 because of the 'per second' thing which you missed out there.

I hope this clears why your answer differs by a factor of \$10^-3\$