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12: Argument Principle

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The argument principle (or principle of the argument) is a consequence of the residue theorem. It connects the winding number of a curve with the number of zeros and poles inside the curve. This is useful for applications (mathematical and otherwise) where we want to know the location of zeros and poles.

  • 12.1: Principle of the Argument
  • 12.2: Nyquist Criterion for Stability
    The Nyquist criterion is a graphical technique for telling whether an unstable linear time invariant system can be stabilized using a negative feedback loop. We will look a little more closely at such systems when we study the Laplace transform in the next topic. For this topic we will content ourselves with a statement of the problem with only the tiniest bit of physical context.
  • 12.3: A Bit on Negative Feedback
    In a negative feedback loop the output of the system is looped back and subtracted from the input.


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