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Control System Design Guide, 2E will allow engineers and hobbyists to apply control theory to practical systems using your PC. This book provides an intuitive approach to controls, avoiding unnecessary math and emphasizing key concepts with more than a dozen control system models. Control System Design Guide is written for engineers and technicians that want to improve their machines and processes. Whether you are just starting to use controllers or have years of experience, Control System Design Guide will walk you through control system theory with a well-founded, clear approach that is focused on making your system work better. * Teaches control from an intuitive approach; avoids unnecessary mathematics* Based on virtual laboratory--key topics are demonstrated with over a dozen models of control systems * The models are written in ModelQ, and can be run on software available free of charge via the Internet to every reader with a PC* Goes beyond proportional-integral-differential (PID) control* Provides detailed comparison of seven different controllers* Explains how to model machines and processes including how to measure working equipment; describes many non-linear behaviors seen in industrial control systems* Provides discussion of electronic motion control including details on how motors and motor feedback devices work, causes and cures mechanical resonance, and shows how position loops work

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Product Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Product Description: First published in 1906 as Practical Modern Carpentry, A Treasury Of Carpentry offers a wealth of insight into both traditional woodworking tools and techniques and more modern methods still in use today. Clear line drawings and no-nonsense instructions explain basic principles such as the selection of timber and tools and the construction of joints, beams and trusses, as well as more complicated projects such as floors and roofs, steeples and tunnels...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: A detailed study of the King's Hall, Cambridge, from its foundation in the early fourteenth century until its dissolution in 1546. It is based largely on the 26 extant volumes of the King's Hall accounts which form one of the most remarkable sequences of medieval collegiate records in Europe...read more

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