Finding the Eigenvalues of A in Practice

Small problems may be solved by hand by solving the system of equations

The Matlab built-in function eig() may be used to find the eigenvalues of (system poles) numerically.^G.10

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written by Julius Orion Smith III
Julius Smith's background is in electrical engineering (BS Rice 1975, PhD Stanford 1983). He is presently Professor of Music and Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), teaching courses and pursuing research related to signal processing applied to music and audio systems. See http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/ for details.