Digital Control System Analysis and Design (3rd Edition)

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Summary: bad book
Review: As a Graduate student. I think this book is very hard to understand. I took long hours to understand some of the topics especially the space state representations.
You should know very well your fundamentals of control system and I recommend to take the Linear System SPace Systems before of this class.
If you understand chapter 2 completely... you will not have problem with the rest of the book.

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Summary: Let a classmate buy it.
Review: Do not expect to learn anything from this book. The examples have holes. It will have you flipping between 6 different places in the book when it references other pages. The instruction assumes too much prior experience. It's the most frustrating book I've ever owned to supplement the dryest class I've ever taken.

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Summary: discrete time for idiots
Review: I am just completing a course in discrete time systems, with this book as the textbook. Besides mediocre instructure from the professors, this course's main detraction is this book. There are very few derivations or explanations for many of the formulas, which tend to help me stay interested in the material. Phillips and Nagle have done a terrible job and I feel that I will have to relearn the material when I get to grad school. This book is written from the standpoint that the reader is an experienced engineer who has been working for years; it attempts to make extensions from the analog world to the digital world, and does so very badly. Why my professors chose this book, I will never know. There are very few examples within the chapters, and no answers for any of the problems. As a final note, the book is full of typos and errors. Whatever you do, don't buy this book!

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Summary: Possibly best available
Review: I used this and a few other books for supplementary study when I took a graduate level course in digital controls. In terms of intelligibility, this book was more helpful than any other, and was substantially superior to the class text.

Rating:
Summary: Possibly best available
Review: I used this and a few other books for supplementary study when I took a graduate level course in digital controls. In terms of intelligibility, this book was more helpful than any other, and was substantially superior to the class text.

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Summary: Not Bad
Review: Less or simple examples, and focus more on control maths than practical applications. It lacks details, and strong examples. Many students had problem follwing this book. You definetly need addition book as a refrence.