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Motivation and physical interpretation of the Laplace transform

Concerning the one-sided Laplace transform, $$\mathcal{L}\{f\}(s) = \int_0^\infty f(t)e^{-st} dt$$ what is a motivation to come up with that formula? I am particularly interested in "physical&...