In the field of control theory, the state space description is a formal way to

write the dynamic equations of a linear system. State Space Averaging is an early
and well
accepted way to derive the model of a switching converter, that
employs the state space description of the converter network.
In your travels, you may hear people talk about State Space Averaging or if you
read
papers it may be referenced. And I want you to know that what I've been
teaching you in this class is in fact State Space Averaging, except without the
formality of writing
the circuit equations in vector and matrix form. State Space Averaging does have
some
additional advantages. It provides a formal way to write the
equations correctly. Where we identify what are the independent
sources, the state variables, and the other dependent, or
alpha quantities of the network? And write them in a very specific matrix
or vector form. And, what we know from state space
averaging is that we, if we can write our converter equations in state space form,
then we can
plug the result directly into the state space
averaging method. And always get a correct and valid model
of our switching converter. I think that we don't have time in this
nine-week class to spend the hour or two of lecture that we take to
cover all of this. But, I do want you to know that it exists,
and that what you have learned in this class is in fact
amount the same thing. So, what I'm going to do is append the
full set of slides to this video which covers an introduction to how
to write state equations for a, an electric
circuit. A derivation of the state space averaging method and a
statement of the results. And then an example of applying State
Space Averaging to drive the AC model of a flyback
converter. So, for those of you who are interested,
or have the time I'd suggest you could look
through those slides.