The science of radio : with MATLAB and Electronics Workbench demonstrations / Paul J. Nahin.

Author/creator Nahin, Paul J.
Format Book
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoNew York : AIP Press, ©2001.
Descriptionxliv, 466 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

Contents Solution to an old problem -- Preradio history of radio waves -- Antenna as launchers and interceptors of electromagnetic waves -- Early radio -- Receiving spark transmitter signals -- Mathematics of AM sidebands -- First continuous waves and heterodyne concept -- Birth of electronics -- Fourier series and their physical meaning -- Convergence in energy of the Fourier series -- Radio spectrum of a spark-gap transmitter -- Fourier integral theorem, and the continuous spectrum of a non-periodic time signal -- Physical meaning of the Fourier transform -- Impulse "functions" in time and frequency -- Convolution theorem, frequency shifts, and causal time signals -- Multiplying by squaring and filtering -- Squaring and multiplying with matched nonlinearities -- Multiplying by "sampling and filtering" -- Synchronous demodulation and its problems -- Analytic signals and single-sideband radio -- Denoument -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: complex exponentials -- Appendix B: what is (and is not) a linear time-invariant systems -- Appendix C: two-terminal components, Kirchoff's circuit laws, magnetic coupling, complex impedances, ac amplitude and phase responses, power, energy, and initial conditions -- Appendix D: Thévenin's and Norton's theorems -- Appendix E: resonance in electrical circuits --Appendix F: differential and operational amplifiers -- Appendix G: reversing the order of integration and double intergrals, and differentiating an integral -- Appendix H: the Fourier integral theorem (how mathematicians do it) -- Appendix I: the Hilbert integral transform -- Appendix J: table of Fourier transform pairs and theorems.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 00062062
ISBN0387951504 (softcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780387951508 (softcover : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks TK6550 .N16 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold