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Stability Criteria, with Special Reference to the Sextic Equation

Part of: 75 year anniversary of Aeronautical Engineering at Glasgow University

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

W. J. Duncan
W. J. Duncan*
Affiliation:
Department of Aeronautics and Fluid Mechanics in the University of Glasgow
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Stability criteria for systems governed by linear differential equations with constant coefficients are discussed in a general way. Detailed treatment of the sextic equation includes a simple and expeditious scheme for computing the test functions.

Type
Technical Notes
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 58 , Issue 522 , June 1954 , pp. 431 - 433
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1954

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