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In this very brief introduction we emphasize some aspects of the difference between the hard sciences and engineering; also we discuss heuristically the relation between physical systems, their models and their mathematical representations: the main message is summarized by Fig.1.1.
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Callier, F.M., Desoer, C.A. (1991). Introduction. In: Linear System Theory. Springer Texts in Electrical Engineering. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0957-7_1
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