How long does it take to read Modern Control System Theory?
M. Gopal
Modern Control System Theory by M. Gopal takes about 12 hours 13 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 13 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1983. 666 pages, about 183,150 words.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 13 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 38 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The book provides an integrated treatment of continuous-time and discrete-time systems for two courses at postgraduate level, or one course at undergraduate and one course at postgraduate level. It covers mainly two areas of modern control theory, namely: system theory, and multivariable and optimal control. The coverage of the former is quite exhaustive while that of latter is adequate with significant provision of the necessary topics that enables a research student to comprehend various technical papers. The stress is on the interdisciplinary nature of the subject. Practical control problems from various engineering disciplines have been drawn to illustrate the potential concepts. Most of the theoretical results have been presented in a manner suitable for digital computer programming along with the necessary algorithms for numerical computations.
Subjects: Automatic control, Control theory
