AME 302 Course Outline
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 11:40 am
Subject Outline:
- Systems of First Order Linear Differential Equations
- Linear independence, eigenvalues and eigenvectors*
- Homogeneous linear systems
- Complex eigenvalues
- Repeated eigenvalues
- Multiple Degree of Freedom Vibrations
- Unforced vibrations and fundamental modes
- Lagrangian dynamics
- Principle coordinates
- Forced vibration, absorbers and force transmission
- Axial, torsional and transverse vibrations
- Feedback Control Systems
- First order plant response under PID control
- Definition of Laplace transform
- Solutions to initial value problems
Block diagrams and block diagram algebra - Step response versus pole locations
- Time domain specifications for feedback problems
- Effects of additional zeros and poles
- Routh's stability criterion
- Stability and frequency domain analysis
- Basic pole placement in state space
- s-plane connection to state space representation
- Root locus method
- Frequency domain methods (Bode plots)