System Dynamics (3rd Edition)

Book was received very shortly after order. Will be very useful now that I am in class that requires book for school

This book is very helpful for those who are doing system dynamics course. I spent more than 4 hours in my university library (KFUPM), comparing this book to other system dynamics books and I found the following result. This book contains the most solved examples than other system dynamics books I have seen. Each chapter of this book contains lots of solved problems that came in my quizzes, major, and final exams.Unlike other system dynamics books I have seen, this book does not discuss Mason loop rule method which is easier to use instead of Block reduction rule method mentioned in this book. I, also, think that this book does not explain very well how to plot Bode Diagrams by hands. Like other system dynamics books I have seen, this book does not provide the students with the solutions of the questions given at the end of each chapter.Regardless of its few minuses, this book is still an excellent one and I strongly recommend it.To overcome its minuses, buy this book as well as " Modern Control System" which is written by Richard C. Dorf & Robert H. Bishop. Modern Control System is also a wonderful book and a very interesting one. It is better than System Dynamics book in that the concepts are explained deeply. Mason loop rule, Block reduction rule, and plotting Bode Diagrams by hands are very well explained in this book. It is easy to understand and very illustrated. Compared to System Dynamics book, this book has 7 excellent appendices plus a fantastic index, which can also be used as a glossary. Additionally, and above all, the solved exampled plus the questions given at the end of each chapter deal with the modern systems, equipments, devices, and with the recent technology available today. I passed this course depending on these two books plus my instructor's notes and got "B+". I strongly believe that the students using these two books will be in very good shapes.

This is a well crafted book by an author who is obviously familiar with the more classical approach to teaching this subject. Excellent and extensive treatment of example problems which help solidify concepts. Very few of those "it is left up to the student" phrases. The book's subject matter progression is one of the best I've read. The chapter on state space concepts comes a little late, but is well presented. An excellent book for review and practical applications.

The text was utilized illustrating the fundamentals of dynamical systems, a topic rather hard to comporehende for undergraduats, with the emphisis on a strong background in Laplace transforms. The text used good systematic strategi in explaning related material all through the book. Over all an excelent text from Ogata.