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    of 4

    Second Edition

    The Science of Radio


    with MATLAB® and
    ELECTRONICS WORKBENCH®
    Demonstrations

    Paul J. Nahin
    University of New Hampshire
    Durham, New Hampshire

    AIP
    Springer
    CONTENTS

    Acknowledgments xi
    What's New in the Second Edition xiii
    A Note to Professors xix
    Prologue xxxi

    Section I Mostly History and a Little Math 1

    1 Solution to an Old Problem 3


    2 Preradio History of Radio Waves 13
    3 Antennas as Launchers and Interceptors of
    Electromagnetic Waves 26
    4 Early Radio 37
    5 Receiving Spark Transmitter Signals 53
    6 Mathematics of AM Sidebands 66
    7 First Continuous Waves and the Heterodyne Concept 75
    8 Birth of Electronics 102

    Section II Mostly Math and a Little History 119

    9 Fourier Series and Their Physical Meaning 121


    V 10 Convergence in Energy of the Fourier Series 136
    viii The Science of Radio

    11 Radio Spectrum of a Spark-Gap Transmitter 156


    12 Fourier's Integral Theorem and the Continuous
    Spectrum 168
    13 Physical Meaning of the Fourier Transform 179
    14 Impulse "Functions" in Time and Frequency 187
    15 Convolution Theorems, Frequency Shifts, and
    Causal Time Signals 212

    Section III Nonlinear Circuits for Multiplication 233

    16 Multiplying by Squaring and Filtering 235


    17 Squaring and Multiplying with Matched
    Nonlinear ities 241
    18 Multiplying by "Sampling and Filtering" 244

    Section IV Mathematics of "Unmultiplying" 251

    19 Synchronous Demodulation and its Problems 253


    20 Analytic Signals and Single-Sideband Radio 261
    21 Denouement 278
    22 Epilogue 294

    Technical Appendices 313

    Appendix A Complex Exponentials 315


    Appendix B What Is (and Is Not) a Linear
    Time-Invariant System (Superposition) 328
    Appendix C Two-Terminal Components, Kirchhoff's
    Circuit Laws, Magnetic Coupling, Complex
    Impedances, ac Amplitude and Phase Responses,
    Power, Energy, and Initial Conditions 334
    Appendix D Thevenin's and Norton's Theorems 368
    Appendix E Resonance in Electrical Circuits 377
    Appendix F Differential and Operational Amplifiers 390
    Contents IX

    Appendix G Reversing the Order of Integration on


    Double Integrals, and Differentiating an Integral 406
    Appendix H The Fourier Integral Theorem (How
    Mathematicians Do It) 429
    Appendix I The Hilbert Integral Transform 436
    Appendix J Table of Fourier Transform Pairs
    and Theorems 450

    Last Words 452


    Name Index 455
    Subject Index 461

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