.|
evaluated
by
means
of
a
voftmeter
or digital
voltmeter'
The
detailed
steps
necessary
for
problem
solution
will
be
dis-
cussed
in detail
in
a later
section'
Briefly'
one
must
first
con-
strrrctamathematicalmodelforthesystemtobestudied.oftensuch
a model
is
not
avail-able.
rn
this
case,
there
are
anal0g
computer
:.-
techniques
available
for
generating
a model
fron
äeta'taken
from
the
physicalsystem.Thenexbstepi-nvolvestheconstructionofacomputer
nblock
diagram"
(an
array
of
summing
alnps,
integrators'
etc')
r^rhich
obeys
the same
differential
equations
as
the
systern
model'
This
dia-
gramisthenusedtoconnectcomputingelementsutilizingthepatchboard.
Sincethepatchboardmayberemovedfromthecomputerandanotherpatch.
board
inserbed,
it
is
not
necessary
to
use
computer
time
otherSthan
for
actual
comPutation.
Theproblemisnowreadyforcomputersolution..Aftermorrnting
the
proper
patchboard,
the
potentiorneters
(u?otso) are
set
to
corre-
spond
to
the
physical
problem
constants
'
The
computer
solution
is
now
obtained
by
pressing
the
rtcoMPUTElt
button.
?roblem
variabfes
may
then
be
observed
and
recorded
as
desired.
Additional
runs
may
be rnade
with
differentphysicalconstants,problernvariables,initialconditions'
^+^
Thisnarrualdescribesthecomputeroperationandprograrrrmingin
detail.Itshouldbeemphasisedthataknor^lledgeofelectricalengi-
rieeringisnot'necessarytosuccessfullyoperateananalogcomputer'
Theblockdiagranapproachusedinthismanualiscommoni.nnanyfields..
Themanualdescrlbesthegeneralcomprrteroperatingcontrolsfirst.
Thisisfollowedbyamodulebyrnoduledescriptionofeacht'blackboxn,
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