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Analog and hybrid computing /
Analog and Hybrid Computing focuses on the operations of analog and hybrid computers. The book first outlines the history of computing devices that influenced the creation of analog and digital computers. The types of problems to be solved on computers, computing systems, and digital computers are d...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Pergamon Press,
[1970]
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| Edición: | First edition]. |
| Colección: | Commonwealth and international library. Electrical engineering division.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Analog and Hybrid Computing; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Introduction; 1.1. Types of Problem to be Solved on Computers; 1.2. Computing Systems; 1.3. Digital Computers; 1.4. Examples of System Mathematical Models; Chapter 2. Theory and Operation of the Basic Units of an Electronic Analog Computer; 2.1. The Operational Amplifier; 2.2. Linear Computing Units; 2.3. Nonlinear Computing Units; Chapter 3. Problem Preparation; 3.1. Flow Diagrams; 3.2. Time and Amplitude Scaling; 3.3. Methods of Amplitude Scaling; 3.4. Methods of Time Scaling.
- 3.5. Estimation of Maximum Values and Frequencies3.6. Examples of the Application of Scaling Techniques; 3.7. Scaling of Higher Order Equations; Chapter 4. Organization of the Computer and Checking Problem Set-ups; 4.1. Interconnection of Units; 4.2. Setting Potentiometers; 4.3. Control of the Problem; 4.4. Checking the Problem Set-up; 4.5. Output Equipment; Chapter 5. Solution of Variable Coefficient and Nonlinear Differential Equations; 5.1. Generation of Functions of Time y = f(t); 5.2. Solution of Variable Coefficient Differential Equations.
- 5.3. Solution of Nonlinear Differential Equations5.4. Special Nonlinear Units and Circuits; Chapter 6. Simulation of Linear Transfer Functions; 6.1. Simulation of Linear Transfer Functions using Integrators, Summers and Potentiometers; 6.2. The Use of Complex CR Networks Associated with Operational Amplifiers to Simulate Transfer Functions; Chapter 7. Iterative Operation of the Analog Computer; 7.1. Additional Hardware Required; 7.2. Organization of an Iterative Analog Computer; 7.3. Application of Track-store Units; 7.4. Memory Pair Operation.
- 7.5. Track-store Units used for Function Generation7.6. Use of Track-store Units to Solve a Simple Twopoint Boundary Value Problem; 7.7. Simulation of the Trajectory of a Bouncing Ball; 7.8. Parameter Optimization; 7.9. Use of Comparators and Digital-to-analog Switches for Function Generation; Chapter 8. Hybrid Computing; 8.1. Comparison of Analog and Digital Computers; 8.2. Hybrid Computing Systems; 8.3. Present Generation Hybrid Computers; 8.4. Analog-to-digital and Digital-to-analog Converters; 8.5. Applications of Hybrid Computers.
- Appendix 1: Derivation of a Generalized Form for Second Order Differential EquationsAppendix 2: Standard Symbols for use in Analog and Hybrid Computer Flow Diagrams; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.