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Summary: Painfully lacks deapth and sophistication.
Review: Pictures are nice. But this book painfully lacks the deapth. This is a typical engineering text having no derivations, no proofs, no theories. Only thing this book shows is some formula for SISO LTI systems. You will be bored within 10 weeks.
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Summary: Good
Review: The book is very good for individual study because of its step-by-step approach. However, it is difficult to use for classroom instruction. By teh way, there is an excellent Solutions Manual available from the publisher, which I would recommend for instructors.It uses MATLAB extensively. ISBN 0-201-59937-6,Addsion Wesley 1994.
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Summary: Toomuch content too little explanation
Review: The problem with this book is it has a lot of content, tries to explain just about everything there is in controls and does not care to explain out the details ... its pretty tough if are do-it-yourself kind... But many of the things in this book are not in other books (or are better explained in advanced control books). It literally took out my interst in Controls. Certainly not a book for beginners.
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Summary: Pros and Cons
Review: The writing is mediocre. It misses on mechanical-electrical analysis analogs, such as the mathematical "equality" between the analysis of springs and inductors.The Appendix includes useful reviews of complex calculus, but it does NOT have answer sets.
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Summary: Not Bad
Review: This book wasn't bad. We used it for an intro to controls class. If the Prof is good, this is a useful book. The link with Matlab is strong and this is important becuase most design seems to be done with Matlab these days.
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Summary: Good Concise Book
Review: We used this book for our undergrad course.. Having read other Control books by authors such as Ogata, Franklin & Ben Kuo, I think this is quite a well written book. This book covers quite a bit of more advanced control theory (such as state-space concept)... It might not be suitable for an introductory course on control.
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Summary: painful memories
Review: we used this book in an undergraduate control course. As another reviewer wrote, the problems following a chapter had nothing to do with the material preceding it. It was as if the problems were done by a person other than the authors. This subject is hard enough even with a good book, but the disconnect between chapters and problems made this interesting subject unenjoyable for me. I still remember working with classmates trying to get through our homework assignments, staying up past 3a.m. hoping to get a few hours sleep before having to start all over again with a new horrid batch of homework problems from this evil book.
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