Chapter nine
Tutorial sheets
This page offers a quick overview of all the tutorial sheets available. The tutorials are grouped into chapters as shown in the left hand index.
Content will cover a broad range of topics, mostly aimed at years one and two of engineering undergraduate. In addition to these tutorials, there are a few web-based quick fire questions you can try.
Tutorials on mathematical skills
Roots of polynomials, Laplace Transforms, Inverse Laplace, Complex numbers, Logarithms and exponentials, Binomial expansions for A level, Logarithms for A level, Trigonometry for A level, Simultaneous equations, matrices and determinants.
Tutorials on linear models and behaviours
Modelling principles and analogies, modelling of 1st and 2nd order systems, responses of 1st and 2nd order systems, classifying behaviours.
Tutorials on concepts of feedback and control
Block diagrams, impact of uncertainty, importance and impact of feedback, closed-loop offsets, simple design approaches.
Tutorials on classical control analysis and design tools
Root-loci, Bode diagrams, Nyquist diagrams, gain/phase margins, lead and lag compensation.
Tutorials on discrete systems
Time series, sampling, z-transforms, ZOH, control design, Tustin transforms.