MEC 3320 - Dynamic Systems

• Identify basic system components of mechanical, electrical, and fluid systems and combine component models into system models
• Formulate mechanical, electrical, fluid and mixed discipline systems into appropriate differential equation models
• Analyze linear systems for dynamic response in both time domain and frequency domain
• Recognize the similarity of the response characteristics of various physically dissimilar systems
• Determine the response of systems using both classical (analytical) and computer-based (numerical) methods

• Statics and dynamics
• Electrical circuits
• Differential equations with Laplace transformations and basic programming

• Review of time domain solutions for 1st and 2nd order systems
• Free, impulse, step and ramp responses
• System dynamic response characteristics
• Laplace domain analysis and pole-zero plots
• Block diagram model representation and transfer functions
• Simulation of block diagram systems using Simulink
• Modeling translating mechanical systems
• Modeling rotating mechanical systems
• Linearization of differential equations
• Modeling RC and RLC electrical circuits
• Modeling operational amplifiers
• Modeling DC motors
• State-variable equations
• Numerical integration
• Frequency response function
• Bode plots of 1^st and 2^nd order systems