pages 33 to 47 of the textbook Laplace

Hi all,
Here is what you need to do for Lectures 1 & 2:
- Read Chapter 1 of the textbook. You may also watch the following videos:
Closed-Loop Control:
- Read Chapter 2 from the beginning of chapter until page 47.
- ​Run MATLAB files ch2p1 through ch2p12 from Appendix B of the textbook (files are
uploaded to Canvas)
- Run MATLAB files ch2sp1 through ch2sp3 from Appendix F of the textbook (files are
uploaded to Canvas)
- Run TryIT files 2.1 through 2.5 (files are uploaded to Canvas)

Here is what you need to study and practice for material covered in Lectures 3 and 4:
- Electric Network Transfer Functions (pages 47 to 61). Please make sure that you are
comfortable with using Cramer's rule when solving simultaneous equations resulted from mesh
or nodal analysis. Also, you should run/read example ch2sp4 in Appendix F to learn how to use
Symbolic Math Toolbox to solve simultaneous equations using Cramer's rule. ​Note: Appendix F
and its MATLAB files are uploaded to Canvas.
-​ Mechanical System Transfer Functions (pages 61,62 and 69). You may skip pages 63-68 and
70-73 as the examples in these pages analyse the systems in mechanical domain. Instead, you
may read lecture notes which cover the same examples using Force-Voltage and Force-Current
Analogies.
- Transfer functions of gears and DC motors (pages 73 to 83): This is an OPTIONAL reading for
students who are interested in electromechanical systems.
- Electric circuit analogies on pages 83 to 86. The coverage of this topic is more thorough in the
lecture notes.
- Nonlinearities on pages 86 to 89. You may skip examples 2.27 and 2.28.
I recommend that you read the case studies on pages 92 to 95. The first one is about the transfer
function of the antenna control system discussed in Lecture 1 and the second one is about
transfer function of human leg!
- Time response of first-order systems on pages 157 to 164.
This is what you should read from the textbook for the material covered in lectures 6 & 7:
● Chapter 4: pages 178 to 191 (MATLAB files to run: ch4p1, ch4p2 in Appendix B,
Example C.1 in Appendix C, Example E.1 in Appendix E and TryIt 4.1 to 4.4)
● Chapter 5: pages 235 to 253 (MATLAB files to run: ch5p1 and ch5p2 in Appendix B,
Example C.3 in Appendix C and TryIt 5.1 and 5.2)
Please read the following for Lectures 8 & 9:
- Chapter 6: from the beginning of chapter until page 317. I specially recommend studying
additional examples on Routh-Hurwitz Criterion on pages 311-315. MATLAB files: TryIt 6.1
and 6.2, ch6sp1 and ch6sp2 from Appendix F and ch6p1 and ch6p2 from Appendix B.
- Chapter 7: pages 335 to 339.

This is to let you know that the midterm exam will be given on:
Thursday, November 16, 12:10-1:30pm, Wellman Hall 216
Please read the following carefully:
1) The exam will be from the beginning of the course to the end of the discussion on
"Steady-State Errors", i.e., Chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7 of the textbook (Please refer to the
Reading Assignments to know which pages of the textbook can be skipped when studying for the
exam). These topics are covered in Homework 1 to Homework 5.
2) A practice test will be uploaded to the course webpage next Thursday.
3) The exam will be closed book but you can use one page (8 1/2" x 11" paper, both sides) of
notes. ​All your notes must be handwritten (no scanned copies of lecture notes, practice test,
etc.). Also, you can not have the full solutions of homework problems or the practice test's
problems on your notes.
4) ​Non-programmable calculators​ ​are allowed.​ This means that your calculator can NOT have
any of the following capabilities:
- Storing, manipulating or graphing functions entered in the symbolic form.
- Performing operations such as differentiation, definite integration, algebraic expressions,
binomial expansion, symbolic differentiation and the solution to a system of equations.
- Chapter 7: Pages 339 to 350 and 353 to 354. MATLAB files: ch7p1 and ch7pt from Appendix
B and TryIt 7.1 to 7.3
- Chapter 8: pages 381 to 390. MATLAB files: TryIt 8.1 and 8.2

You should read pages 390 to 412 of the textbook for material covered in lectures 12 and 13.
- MATLAB files to run: TryIt 8.3, chp1 and chp2 from Appendix B.

Please note that in these videos, N is defined as the number of clockwise rotations around -1 and
therefore Nyquist criterion is written as Z=P+N (In the lectures notes and the textbook, N is
defined as the number of counterclockwise rotations around -1 and thus Nyquist criterion is
written as Z=P-N)
Hi all,
For PID Controllers, you need to read the following pages of your textbook:
- Introduction to design via root locus: Page 449 to 453
- PI Controllers: Pages 453 to 457
- PD Controllers: Pages 462 to 469
- PID Controllers: 474 to 479