Rev. ed. of: Automatic control systems / Farid Golnaraghi, Benjamin C. Kuo. 8th. 2003.

Includes index.

Introduction -- Mathematical foundation -- Block diagrams and signal-flow graphs -- Theoretical foundation and background material: modeling of dynamic systems -- Time-domain analysis of control systems -- The control lab -- Root locus analysis -- Frequency-domain analysis -- Design of control systems -- State variable analysis.

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