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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

308823 (v.1) Linear Systems Modelling 232

Area: Department of Mechanical Engineering
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 4.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 2 Hours Fortnightly
Prerequisite(s): 307529 (v.4) Engineering Mechanics 100 or any previous version
AND
    307537 (v.3) Engineering Mathematics 130 or any previous version
    OR
    307538 (v.3) Engineering Mathematics 140 or any previous version
    OR
    7063 (v.6) Mathematics 102 or any previous version
    OR
    7492 (v.5) Mathematics 104 or any previous version
AND
307543 (v.5) Electrical Systems 100 or any previous version
Syllabus: Introduction (motivation for linear system modelling). Unit impulse, step, ramp. Linear time invariant system definitions and properties. Applications of the unit impulse, convolution, sinusoidal steady state system response. Initial condition solution. Stability, frequency response function. Introduction to Laplace transforms. Transforms of analytical functions, Laplace transform tables. Transfer functions. Unit impulse response. Poles and zeros. Inverse Laplace transforms, theorems. Solution to simultaneous differential equations. Sine and cosine Fourier series, Dirichlet conditions, Gibbs phenomenon, functions of arbitrary period, complex exponential Fourier series, spectral representation of Fourier series, time-frequency representation of periodic functions, Fourier integral. Introduction to state space analysis, formulation of equations in state space form. Matrix exponential expansion. Laplace transform solution of state space equations, matrix solution methods.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 030701 Mechanical Engineering
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External