Examples

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Chapter 4 - Examples

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In this chapter we present a collection of examples spanning many different fields of science and engineering. These examples are used throughout the text and in exercises to illustrate different concepts. First-time readers may wish to focus on only a few examples with which they have had the most prior experience or insight to understand the concepts of state, input, output, and dynamics in a familiar setting.

Contents

1. Cruise Control
2. Bicycle Dynamics
3. Operational Amplifier Circuits
4. Computing Systems and Networks
   • Web Server Control
   • Congestion Control
5. Atomic Force Microscopy
6. Drug Administration
   • Compartment Models
   • Insulin--Glucose Dynamics
7. Population Dynamics
   • Logistic Growth Model
   • Predator--Prey Models

Exercises

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