| Ch. 1 |   | Introduction |   | 1 | 
| Ch. 2 |   | Mathematical Foundation |   | 16 | 
| Ch. 3 |   | Block Diagrams and Signal-Flow Graphs |   | 104 | 
| Ch. 4 |   | Theoretical Foundation and Background Material: Modeling of Dynamic Systems |   | 147 | 
| Ch. 5 |   | Time-Domain Analysis of Control Systems |   | 253 | 
| Ch. 6 |   | The Control Lab |   | 337 | 
| Ch. 7 |   | Root Locus Analysis |   | 372 | 
| Ch. 8 |   | Frequency-Domain Analysis |   | 409 | 
| Ch. 9 |   | Design of Control Systems |   | 487 | 
| Ch. 10 |   | State Variable Analysis |   | 673 | 
|   |   | Index |   | 773 | 
| App. A |   | Elementary Matrix Theory and Algebra |   |   | 
| App. B |   | Difference Equations |   |   | 
| App. C |   | Laplace Transform Table |   |   | 
| App. D |   | z-Transform Table |   |   | 
| App. E |   | Properties and Construction of the Root Loci |   |   | 
| App. F |   | General Nyquist Criterion |   |   | 
| App. G |   | ACSYS 2008: Description of the Software |   |   | 
| App. H |   | Discrete-Data Control Systems |   |   |