Title: The Science of Radio / Paul J. Hahin Post by: K5UJ on May 29, 2009, 07:44:48 PM The Science of Radio / Paul J. Nahin (E.E. Dept. U. New Hampshire) AMfone - Dedicated to Amplitude Modulation on the Amateur Radio Bands
c1996 and later edition Woodbury, New York : Springer and American Institute of Physics Press. 296 p. From the back cover: In the eighty years since its invention, radio has become an integral part of our lives. As this remarkable innovative book demonstrates, the story of AM radio can also be the source of unique learning experience. It provides an ideal context for an encounter with basic electrical engineering, serving to simplify the mastery of primary concepts and applications. By focusing specifically on the workings of AM radio, The Science of Radio offers both a fascinating history of radio as an information and entertainment medium and a practical, applications-oriented introduction to electrical engineering. A number of challenging problems, with answers and/or solution hints provided for nearly all of them, are in the book. Selected text etc. such as Chapt. 6 Mathematics of AM Sidebands is available at Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=V1GBW6UD4CcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Science+of+Radio Interesting (to me) chapters: Chapter 1 Solution to an old problem Chapter 2 Pre-Radio History of Radio Waves Chapter 3 Antennas as Launchers and Interceptors of Electromagnetic Waves Chapter 4 Early Radio Chapter 5 Receiving Spark Transmitter Signals Chapter 6 Mathematics of AM Sidebands Chapter 7 First Continuous Waves and Heterodyne Concept Chapter 8 Birth of Electronics Chapter 19 Synchronous Demodulation and Its Problems Chapter 20 Analytic Signals and Single-Sideband Radio Appendix D Resonance in Electrical Circuits |