In this presentation, conditions and explicit formulas for the realization of a relaxed fourth-order linear time-varying system as a cascade connection of two commutative first and third-order systems are given. The results are supported by an example.  

Keywords - Differential equation, physical systems, equivalent circuit, decomposition, analogue control

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