The science of radio : with MATLAB and Electronics Workbench demonstrations / Paul J. Nahin.
| Author/creator | Nahin, Paul J. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 2nd ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : AIP Press, ©2001. |
| Description | xliv, 466 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Supplemental Content | Table 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 00062062 |
| ISBN | 0387951504 (softcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780387951508 (softcover : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | TK6550 .N16 2001 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |