Evaluate \mathscr{L}^{-1}\left\{\frac{-2 s+6}{s^{2}+4}\right\}.
We first rewrite the given function of s as two expressions by means of termwise division and then use (1):
\mathscr{L}^{-1}\{\alpha F(s)+\beta G(s)\}=\alpha \mathscr{L}^{-1}\{F(s)\}+\beta \mathscr{L}^{-1}\{G(s)\}, (1)