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A book that integrates physical reality with theory and analysis through examples and simple explanations.

Table of Contents

Preface

1. Measurement systems

2. Instrumentation systems elements

3. Instrumentation case studies

4. Control Systems

5. Process controllers

6. Correction elements

7. PLC systems

8. Systems

9. Transfer function

10. Systems response

11. Frequency response

12. Nyquist diagrams

13. Controllers

Appendix A: Errors

Appendix B: Differential equations

Appendix C: Laplace transform

Answers

Index

About the Author

Former Lecturer at Buckingham Chilterns University College, High Wycombe, UK, and now retired, William Bolton has worked in industry and academia as a senior lecturer in a college of technology, a member of the Nuffield Advanced Physics team, an adviser to a British government aid project in Brazil on technical education, as a UNESCO consultant in Argentina and Thailand, and as Head of Research and Development at the Business and Technician Education Council. He has written many engineering textbooks, including Mechatronics, 4th ed., Engineering Science, 5th ed., Higher Engineering Science, 2nd ed., Mechanical Science, 3rd ed., and Instrumentation and Control Systems.