Contents:
Preface to the Dover Edition.
1. Dynamic Investigation.
A. Equations of Motion for Physical Systems.
2. Equations of Motion for Simple Physical Systems: Mechanical, Electrical, and Electromechanical.
3. Equations of Motion for Simple Heat-Conduction and Fluid Systems.
4. Analogies.
5. Equations of Motion for Mechanical Systems in Two and Three Dimensions.
B. Dynamic Responses of Elementary Systems.
6. First-Order Systems.
7 Undampened Second-Order Systems: Free Vibrations.
8. Damped Second-Order Systems.
9. Forced Oscillations of Elementary Systems.
10. Natural Motions of Nonlinear Systems and Time-Varying Systems.
C. Natural Behavior of Compound Systems.
11. Dynamic Stability.
12. Coupled Modes of Natural Motion: Two Degrees of Freedom.
13 Coupled Modes of Natural Motion: Many Degrees of Freedom.
D. Total Response of Compound Systems.
14. est and Transfer Functions.
15. Forced Oscillations of Compound Systems.
16. Response to Periodic Functions: Fourier Analysis.
17. The Laplace Transform Method.
18. From LaPlace Transform to Time Response by Partial Fraction Expansion.
19. Complete System Analysis: Some Case Studies.
E. Fundamentals of Control-System Analysis.
20. Feedback Control.
21 Evans' Root-Locus Method.
22. Some Case Studies in Automatic Control.
Appendixes. Problems.
Answers to Odd-Numbered Problems.
Selected References.
Index.