Mathematics for Dynamic Modeling

✍ Scribed by Edward Beltrami (Auth.)

• Publisher: Elsevier Inc, Academic Press
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 275
• Edition: First Printing
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This new edition of Mathematics for Dynamic covers tools such as linearization, feedback concepts, the use of Liapunov functions, and optimal control. Each chapter includes exercises, many of which expand on the material in the text

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
Preface, Pages xiii-xvi
Chapter One - Simple Dynamic Models, Pages 3-15
Chapter Two - Stable and Unstable Motion, I, Pages 17-37
Chapter Three - Stable and Unstable Motion, II, Pages 39-59
Chapter Four - Growth and Decay, Pages 61-82
Chapter Five - Motion in Time and Space, Pages 85-136
Chapter Six - Cycles and Bifurcation, Pages 137-170
Chapter Seven - Bifurcation and Catastrophe, Pages 171-205
Chapter Eight - Chaos, Pages 207-228
Chapter Nine - There Is a Better Way, Pages 229-253
APPENDIX - Ordinary Differential Equations: A Review, Pages 255-262
References and a Guide to Further Readings, Pages 263-266
Notes on the Individual Chapters, Pages 267-274
Index, Pages 275-277