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We have seen the concept of Dirac measure arising in connection with the fundamental solutions of the diffusion and the wave equations. Another interesting situation is the following, where the Dirac measure models a mechanical impulse.
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Salsa, S. (2008). Distributions and Sobolev Spaces. In: Partial Differential Equations in Action. Universitext. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0752-9_7
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