Modern Control Engineering
<P><B></B> This comprehensive treatment of the analysis and design of continuous-time control systems provides a <I>gradual</I> development of control theory—and shows how to solve <I>all</I> computational problems with MATLAB. It avoids highly mathematical arguments, and features an abundance of examples and worked problems throughout the book. <B></B> Chapter topics include the Laplace transform; mathematical modeling of mechanical systems, electrical systems, fluid systems, and thermal systems; transient and steady-state-response analyses, root-locus analysis and control systems design by the root-locus method; frequency-response analysis and control systems design by the frequency-response; two-degrees-of-freedom control; state space analysis of control systems and design of control systems in state space. <B></B> For control systems engineers. </P>