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LEC # TOPICS KEY DATES
Week 1
1 Introduction

Multi-domain Modeling

Syllabus, Policies and Expectations
Assignment 1 out
Week 2
2 Review: Network Models of Physical System Dynamics

Bond-graph Notation
3 Review (cont.): Equivalent Behavior in Different Domains

Block Diagrams, Bond Graphs, Causality
Week 3
4 Thévenin and Norton Equivalent Networks

Impedance Control and Applications
5 Energy-storing Coupling between Domains

Multi-port Capacitor

Maxwell's Reciprocity
Assignment 1 due

Assignment 2 out
Week 4
6 Energy, Co-energy, Legendre Transformation, Causal Assignment

Intrinsic stability
7 Review Revisited: Magnetism and Electro-magnetism
Week 5
8 Electro-magnetic-mechanical Transduction

Use of Co-energy Functions
Term project proposal due
9 Linearized Energy-storing Transducer Models Assignment 2 due

Assignmnet 3 out
Week 6
10 Cycle Processes

Work-to-heat Transduction

Thermodynamics of Simple Substances
11 Causal Assignments and Co-energy Functions

Second Law for Heat Transfer

Multi-port Resistors
Week 7
12 Nonlinear Mechanical Systems

Modulated Transformers and Gyrators
Assignment 3 due 
Week 8
13 Lagrangian Mechanics

Coordinates, State Variables and Independent Energy Storage Variables
14 Nonlinear Mechanical Transformations and Impedance Control Assignment 4 out
Week 9
15 Hamiltonian Mechanics

Stable Interaction Control

Canonical Transformation Theory
16 Term Project Progress Report Discussion Term project progress report due
Week 10
17 Identification of Physical and Behavioral Parameters

Model structure
18 (Internally) Modulated Sources

Non-equilibrium Multi-port Resistors

Nodicity
Assignment 4 due

Assignment 5 out
Week 11
19 Amplifying Processes

Small-signal and Large-signal Models
20 Thermodynamics of Open Systems

Convection and Matter Transport

Lagrangian vs. Eulerian Frames
Week 12
21 Power Conjugates for Matter Transport

Second Law for Non-heat-transfer Processes

Throttling and Mixing
22 Bernoulli's Incompressible Equation

The "Bernoulli Resistor" and "Pseudo-bond-graphs"
Assignment 5 due
Week 13
23 Chemical Reaction and Diffusion Systems

Gibbs-Duhem equation
Week 14
24 Control-relevant Properties of Physical System Models

Causal Analysis, Relative Degree, Passivity and Interaction Stability
25 Transmission Line Models

Term Project Presentations
Week 15
26 Wrap-up Discussion

Term Project Presentations (cont.)