... Conservation of Energy and the First Law of Thermodynamics 1829.3 Nonconservation of Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics 1879.4 Nonconservation of Ectropy 1899.5 Semistability of Discrete-Time ... Chapter 5, we introduce the notion of a control vector Lyapunovfunction as a generalization of control Lyapunov functions [6], and showthat asymptotic stabilizability of a nonlinear dynamical system ... boundary, the interior, and the closure of the set S by ∂S,◦S,andS, respectively.We write ·for the Euclidean vector norm, R(A)andN(A)forthe range space and the null space of a matrix A, respectively,...