JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF POWER ENGINEERING
Experiment 4
Name of the Experiment: Determination
DeterminationofofTime Response
Impulse 1st order system
of responses
& Step for systems of different orders
Objective: To
To determine
determinetime
theImpulse
Impulseand Step Response
& Step responses 1st order
of for system
systems using
of 1st MATLAB
and 2nd order systems
Theory: Consider the 1st order system as shown below. Physically, this system may represent an
RC circuit, thermal system or the like. A simplified block diagram is also shown below.
Determination of Impulse & Step responses for systems of different orders
The input output relation is given by
C s 1
Rs Ts 1
(a) Unit-Step Response of 1st order system
Since the Laplace Transform of unit-step function is 1/s, we have from above expression,
1 1
C s
Ts 1 s
Taking inverse Laplace Tranform, we have
t
ct 1 e
T
for t 0
A typical response is shown below.
%-------------Step Response 1st order System-------------
%----------KKM--------------8.2.22
%----------Enter Transfer Function---------------
num = [1];
den = [8 1 ];
%----------- Enter Impulse Response Command-------------
step(num,den)
%---------- Enter Grid and Title ------------
grid
title('Unit Step Response of G(s)= (1/8s+1)')