The Science of Radio

by Paul J. Nahin

Explore the fascinating world of AM radio with this unique book and master key concepts in electrical engineering and physics. Unlike most technical books that begin with a deluge of scientific detail, The Science of Radio takes a "top down" approach. It starts from a global perspective and gradually introduces theory and formula. Dr. Nahin also employs a "just in time" strategy, introducing new mathematical and physical theories only as they are needed to understand a topic. The book offers a number of challenging problems, with answers and/or solution hints provided for nearly all of them.

Genres: Physics, Science, Textbooks

296 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1996

About the author

Paul J. Nahin is professor emeritus of electrical engineering at the University of New Hampshire and the author of many best-selling popular math books, including The Logician and the Engineer and Will You Be Alive 10 Years from Now? (both Princeton).

Reviews

[Liquidlasagna · Rating 1 out of 5]

I think adding Mathlab pretty much ruins the book, unless you're a MATHLAB Fanatic, and well, it's common with a lot of engineers now

Then again, my way of working would be to have a film if you're going to demonstrate anything, and not to make a textbook a workbook..... unless your intention is to make a workbook from the very beginning

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The Mathematical Radio: Inside the Magic of AM, FM, and Single-Sideband
by Nahin

is more my style

oh take me to the 1960s without the gimmicks!

wake me when there is this book with a bunch of analog computer programming workbook exercises with the plugboard

[Luciano Sanzaro · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read the older AIP press edition and I strongly recommend to electrical engineering students.

This is an unconventional textbook in that you cannot expect, by reading this book, to be prepared for an exam in electronic circuit design, or one in signal theory, or even one in electrical communications. Indeed, by reading this book and taking the exercises you can have a stronger understanding on how these subjects link each other, with a deep level of detail.

I like the math style adopted, which is weird and occasionally lacking of rigor, but practically useful. I appreciate the absence of complex analysis topics, like conformal maps and cauchy theorems, that add little value, at a great expense of time, to the overall content.

[Luis Munoz · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has a lot of mathematics and analysis (I had expected more Matlab code solutions) that is really hard to follow in some pages, but the anecdotes in the history of AM radio and the Technically Appendix about a lot of mathematics that an electrical engineer has to learn, resumed 3 University years in 80 pages, worth it. Nahin is a technical writer so you can expect this kind of scientific deepening in his books.

[K. S. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this, not the mat lab one, oops. Nahin is very knowledgeable, but I find him dry.