With over 1000 references, tables, equations, and illustrations, this reference covers design-motivated modeling and analysis of systems with mechanical, fluid, electrical, thermodynamic, or hybrid components. Creating effective models based on Paynterian bond graphs and constitutive characteristics, it provides case studies, guided problems, numbered and highlighted examples, and numerous assignable problems in every chapter. Offering extensive developments of conventional linear methods, an introduction to automatic control, and the approach of classical vibrations, the author employs a step-by-step pedagogy that makes advanced techniques accessible to introductory courses.

There are many interesting dynamic modeling problems, including aircraft carrier landings, eardrum vibrations and even MEMS to name a few. In most cases, extracting the differential equations governing the dynamic behavior becomes a very direct procedure, following the construction of the bond graph models.