Modeling and representation of dynamic physical systems: transfer functions, block diagrams, state equations, and transient response. Principles of feedback control and linear analysis including root locus and frequency response methods. Practical applications and computer simulations using MATLAB®.
Co-requisite: MA 240 - Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations
Schedule: Monday 2 - 3, Room 143
Thursday 1 - 3, Room 343
Exam Schedule:
Exam 1 - March 9, 2006
Mandatory
CONNECT workshop on April 6, 2006
Exam 2 - April 13, 2006
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Syllabus:
We will cover the first 4.5 chapters in the book.
There will be two 2-hour exams. The lectures will stop early April.
From that point on, the class will be devoted to the new ASME
project . In the remaining weeks of the semester you will be
asked to build a prototype that solves the problem (can be from cardboard
or other such material). This is not the final version, which you
will complete in the fall semester. It does not have to be automated,
but has to solve the problem and have moving parts. Think of this
as an architects model of a house...
Each exam will be 40 % and the project will be 20 % of your grade. Participation in class will get you brownie points (if you straddle a grade fence it will help).
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Last edited: March 6, 2006. mjl