System Dynamics 3rd Edition by William Palm III

System Dynamics 3rd Edition by William Palm III includes the strongest treatment of computational software and system simulation of any available text, with its early introduction of MATLAB® and Simulink®. The text's extensive coverage also includes discussion of the root locus and frequency response plots, among other methods for assessing system behavior in the time and frequency domains as well as topics such as function discovery, parameter estimation, and system identification techniques, motor performance evaluation, and system dynamics in everyday life.

The decision to write a textbook often comes from the author’s desire to improve on available texts. The decisions as to what topics to include and what approach to take emerge from the author’s teaching experiences that give insight as to what is needed for students to master the subject. This text is based on the author’s thirty-seven years of experience in teaching system dynamics.

This experience shows that typical students in a system dynamics course are not yet comfortable with applying the relevant concepts from earlier courses in dynamics and differential equations. Therefore, this text reviews and reinforces these important topics early on. Students often lack sufficient physical insight to relate the mathematical results to applications. The text therefore uses everyday illustrations of system dynamics to help students to understand the material and its relevance.

If laboratory sessions accompany the system dynamics course, many of the text’s examples can be used as the basis for experiments. The text is also a suitable reference on hardware and on parameter estimation methods.

Book Details
Hardcover: 928 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education; 3 edition (March 19, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0073398063
ISBN-13: 978-0073398068

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