2.004 Dynamics and Control II
Fall 2009
Instructors: Domitilla Del Vecchio, Se Baek Oh, George Barbastathis, David E Hardt, Harrison H Chin
TAs: Martin Deterre, Brett Robert Tartler
Lecture:
TR9.30-11,F12
(34-101)
Lab: M1-3 or M3-5 or T2-4 or R1-3 or R3-5
(3-062)
Information:
Announcements
Final exam announcement
Thank you all for a productive and rewarding semester. Below are the rules for the final exam:(1) please bring at most three 8.5"x11" pages
of notes, double-sided, hand-written or printed and annotated, as
densely written and with as many formulae and self-reminders as you
can fit in for use during the exam;
(2) you are not allowed to use books, notebooks, newspapers and any
other printed or electronic aids;
(3) no use of computers, calculators, personal digital assistants,
cell phones, or other electronic devices is allowed during the
exam, just as in an airplane during take-off and landing; the only
permitted use of electrons is inside your brain, but that's
electro-chemical so it's not covered by the ban;
(4) because of the ban on calculators, we will make sure any
numerical or geometrical calculations can be carried out without
excessive effort; our goal is to bring forth your knowledge of
system modeling and feedback control, not your arithmetic
skills;
(5) the final is comprehensive of all the material that we covered
during the semester;
(6) if you have questions, technical or administrative, please post
them in the Stellar forum; thus, everyone can benefit from the
answers; we will remain vigilant to post answers throughout the
weekend until about midnight on Sunday;
(7) we will not respond to individual emails at anytime or to forum
questions posted after midnight on Sunday; we need to get some
sleep and so should you.
We wish you the best performance possible in this and all other
final exams you may be signed up for, and happy holidays.
Announced on 11 December 2009 8:54 a.m. by George Barbastathis
Final project reports
You can drop off your final project lab reports in the box outside of 3-469 (before Friday 5pm).
Announced on 03 December 2009 11:11 a.m. by Martin Deterre
Lecture 33 revised
I've posted a revision to the lecture notes with the following corrections:* expression for output in slide 2 had been corrupted in
original;
* expression for the attenuation drop in slide 4 has been fixed
(correct value: -3dB).
Announced on 01 December 2009 3:27 p.m. by George Barbastathis
Subject evaluation for 2.004
The following announcement has been issued by Prof. Lienhard:"The end-of-term subject evaluations will be conducted
online for Course 2 subjects for which MechE is the home
department. The URL for the subject evaluations is:
http://web.mit.edu/surveys/subjecteval/
The evaluations will open on Tuesday, 1 December, and they will
close on Saturday, 12 December."
Please follow the above link to submit your 2.004 evaluation
within the allotted time window.
Announced on 01 December 2009 1:09 p.m. by George Barbastathis
Lab 9 - Tower Controller Testing Writeup
The handout for the last lab is now on-line. Please read it before you come to lab next week, and be sure to come to lab ready to do a final design for your system. Note also that the assignment for the 3 session project ends with a lab report documenting all of your work and results.
See you after Thanksgiving
David Hardt
Announced on 25 November 2009 2:34 p.m. by David E Hardt
