Schaum's Outline of Feedback and Control Systems, 2nd Edition

The ideal review for your feedback and control systems course

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• Outline format supplies a concise guide to the standard college course in feedback and control systems
• 700 solved problems
• Exercises to help you test your mastery of engineering mechanics
• Appropriate for the following courses: Bio-Control Systems, Robotics, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electronical Engineering
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• Easy-to-follow review of feedback and control systems
• Book offers a concise, yet comprehensive, treatment of the fundamentals of feedback and control system theory and applications for engineers, physical, biological and behavioral scientists, economists, and mathematicians

Preface

Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : Control Systems Terminology
Chapter 3 : Differential Equations, Difference Equations, and Linear Systems
Chapter 4 : The LaPlace Transform
Chapter 5 : The Z-Transform
Chapter 6 : Stability
Chapter 7 : Transfer Functions
Chapter 8 : Block Diagram Algebra and Transfer Functions of Systems
Chapter 9 : Signal Flow Graphs
Chapter 10 : System Sensitivity Measures and Classification of Feedback Systems
Chapter 11 : Analysis and Design of Feedback Control Systems : Objectives and Methods
Chapter 12 : Nyquist Analysis
Chapter 13 : Nyquist Design
Chapter 14 : Root-Locus Design
Chapter 15 : Bode Analysis
Chapter 16 : Bode Design
Chapter 17 : Nichols Chart Analysis
Chapter 18 : Nichols Chart Design
Chapter 19 : Introduction to Nonlinear Control Systems
Chapter 20 : Introduction to Advanced Systems
Chapter 21 : Topics in Control Systems
Chapter 22 : Analysis and Design

Index