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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Shinners, Stanley M.

Modern control system theory and design / Stanley M. Shinners - 2nd ed.

p.  cm.

Includes index.
ISBN 0-471-24906-8 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Automatic control.   2. Control theory.   I. Title.

TJ213.S455443 1998                                             97-34538
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