Index Boole, George, 246 Boolean logic notation, 246 Bourdon, Eugene, 70 Bourdon tubes, 7071 Boxcar algorithm,

220, 221 Brainstorming, 270 Brainwriting, 270 Branches, 311, 312 Break points, 519, 520, 523 Bridge equations, 8286 Bridge excitation, 102103 Bridge substitution, 99101 Bridge transducers, 69115 ac impedance, 111115 calibration, 93102 excitation, 102103 exural devices, 7073 noise considerations, 105111 resistance balance methods, 9193 resistance strain gauge, 7382 signal amplication, 103104 slip rings, 104, 105 Wheatstone bridge, 8191 Brushed dc servomotors, 546552 Brushless dc servomotors, 552557, 592 commutation of, 552, 554556 construction of, 552, 553 cross sections of, 553, 556 numerical example of, 556557 operation of, 552 performance data for, 553, 556 Brush wear, 105 BTR (Behind the Tape Reader), 697 Buffer ampliers, 670 Bulk micromachining, 866, 868 Buoyant force, 179 Butterworth lter, 193194 Bytes, 846

879

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CACSD (computer-aided control system design), 759 CAD, see Computer-aided design CADENCE, 867868 Calibration, 93102 dynamic, 9596 electrical substitution techniques, 96 102 tting equations to data for, 69

of instrument, 117 static, 4, 69, 9395 Callendar bridge, 155, 156 Callendar equation, 159 CallendarVan Dusen equation, 160 CAM, see Computer-aided manufacturing Canonical forms: for continuous-time systems, 722731 for discrete-time systems, 731739 Cantilever beams, 70 Capacitance, 38 Capacitive bridges, 114115 Capacitive storage elements, 307 Capacitors, 829831 Cascade control, 415, 417 Cascaded elements, 458460 Cascaded instrument system, 64 Causal base rate, 279 Causal loop diagrams, 272 Celsius, degrees, 117 Central limit theorem, 17 Central processing units (CPUs), 848850 Central tendency (most representative value), 9 Centrifugal pendulum, 395 Ceramic cements, 77 Ceramic rotors, 552, 553 Cerebellar model articulation controller (CMAC), 794 Cesium clock, 117 Cesium fountain atomic clock, 117 CFD Research Corporation, 867 CFM (cubic feet per minute), 175 Characteristic equation(s), 351 closed-loop, 469471, 481, 517526 open-loop, 469 Charette, 270 Chi-square distribution, 24, 27, 2931 Chordal admittance, 5354 Chordal impedance matching, 53 Chordal slope, 52 Circuit analysis, 831833 Circular resonators, 870, 872 Clamped diaphragms, 7172 Classical control theory, 322, 761 CLCE, see Closed-loop characteristic equation CL (cutter location) level, 697 Closed-loop amplitude ratio, 512514