Newnes Control Engineering Pocket Book
Published on 2. December 1998
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-7506-3928-6 (ISBN)
Description
Newnes Control Engineering Pocket Book is a concise reference text for students, technicians and engineers. Control engineering is the foundation on which modern industry is built, but is often viewed as one of the toughest subjects, as it includes abstract ideasand often tough mathematics. This pocket book provides a digest of the full range of topics needed to understand and use control systems theory and engineering.Bill Bolton is one of the most experienced teachers and authors in the engineering world. This book complements Newnes Instrumentation and Measurement Pocket Book by Bolton. Illustrated throughout and crammed with reference material, no other book covers the basics of control in such a convenient and affordable format.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Engineering students; control engineers, technicians.
Dimensions
Height: 252 mm
Width: 195 mm
Weight
280 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7506-3928-6 (9780750639286)
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Person
Former Lecturer at Buckingham Chilterns University College, High Wycombe, UK, and now retired, William Bolton has worked in industry and academia as a senior lecturer in a college of technology, a member of the Nuffield Advanced Physics team, an adviser to a British government aid project in Brazil on technical education, as a UNESCO consultant in Argentina and Thailand, and as Head of Research and Development at the Business and Technician Education Council. He has written many engineering textbooks, including Mechatronics, 4th ed., Engineering Science, 5th ed., Higher Engineering Science, 2nd ed., Mechanical Science, 3rd ed., and Instrumentation and Control Systems.
Content
Preface; Introduction; System models; Dynamic responses; Poles and zeros; Time-domain performance criteria; Frequency-domain response; Stability and the frequency domain; Root locus method; Control system design; Discrete time systems; The z-transform; Computer control systems; State system models; Index.