Originally published by Prentice-Hall, this control book has been reprinted by request. A teaching text, suitable for self-instruction, it emphasizes fundamentals, concepts, and understanding with illustrative examples in the text and problems at the end of the chapters. Although concentrating on classical control and the transfer function for an understanding of the system dynamic response and its modification by a controller, the book does treat nonlinear and digital control and modern control theory.

About the Author

Dr. Francis J. Hale is a Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at North Carolina State University NCSU) in Raleigh, NC. Prior to joining NCSU in 1965, he spent 24 years in the military,in the Corps of Engineers and the US Air Force. He has been Prof & Head of the Dept of Astronautics at the US AF Academy, Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, a Visiting Professer of Mechanics at the US Military Academy, and a Secretary of the Navy Fellow at the US Naval Academy. In addition to this book, he is the author of two other technical books and the co-author of a third. He is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA and a registered engineer in North Carolina. He has a BS degree from the US Military Academy and the SM and ScD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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