Publisher Description

The subject of system dynamics deals with mathematical modeling and analysis of devices and processes for the purpose of understanding their time-dependent behavior. It emphasizes applications containing multiple types of components and processes such as electromechanical devices, electrohydraulic devices, and fluid-thermal processes. Because systems of interconnected elements often require a control system to work properly, control system design is a major application area in system dynamics. System Dynamics covers these topics, has application case studies, more homework problems than other texts, and the strongest treatment of computational software and system simulation, with its early introduction of MATLAB® and Simulink®.

Table of Contents

1) Introduction2) Dynamic Response Methods3) Modeling of Rigid-Body Mechanical Systems4) Spring and Damper Elements in Mechanical Systems5) Block Diagrams, State-Variable Models, and Simulation Methods6) Electrical and Electromechanical Systems7) Fluid and Thermal Systems8) System Analysis in the Time Domain9) System Analysis in the Frequency Domain10) Introduction to Feedback Control Systems11) Control System Design and the Root Locus Plot12) Compensator Design13) Vibration Applications (On Website)AppendicesA) Guide to Selected MATLAB Commands and FunctionsB) Fourier SeriesC) Developing Models from DataD) Introduction to MATLAB (On Website)E) Numerical Methods (On Website)

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