Electromagnetic Waves and Radiating Systems

by Edward C. Jordan, Edward G Balmain, William L. Everitt (Editor)

Edward C. Jordan, Keith G. Balmain Izdavač: Prentice-Hall Electrical Engineering Series Broj 750 tvrd + omot 23 cm ★★★★★ Drugo, prošireno izdanje. Edward C. Jordan (IRE Student member, 1936; Associate, 1939; Senior Member, 1945; and Fellow, 1953) was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on 31 December 1910. He received the B.Sc. degree, in 1934, and the M.Sc. degree, in 1936, in electrical engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, and, in 1940, he received the Ph.D. degree from Ohio State University, Columbus. Jordan was Control Operator at radio station CKUA for seven years from 1928 to 1935. He also held the job of Electrical Engineer for International Nickel Company in Sudbury for two years, from 1935 to 1937. He taught electrical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute for one year (1940). After he earned the Ph.D. degree he returned to Ohio State, in 1941, and advanced from Instructor to Assistant Professor and worked at the Antenna Laboratory from 1941 to 1945. In 1945, he followed his mentor, William L. Everitt, to the University of Illinois, Urbana , where he supervised research on antennas and radio direction finding. At the University of Illinois, Jordan served as associate professor from 1945 to 1947, professor from 1947 to 1979, director of the Radio Direction Finding Laboratory from 1946 to 1954, and director of the Antenna Laboratory from 1950 to 1954. In 1954, he was named Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, in which capacity he served for twenty-five years until his retirement in 1979.

Genres: Engineering, Science

753 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1968

Reviews

[Brain · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is probably one of the standards in the field of signals and communications. It’s fairly well written but will require a good deal of prior knowledge of advanced math, physics and chemistry. However, it’s mostly explained within the text. It says a lot that it was minimally revised and published again years later.

I tend to rate 3 to 5 stars as I don’t bother with books that aren’t acceptable to the subject. 3 stars means it is a good book, but there are better treatment of the subject matter. 4 stars means the book is great and I use it regularly in projects/research. 5 stars is reserved for top 10-20% on a given shelf that abstracted a particularly difficult idea (i.e. it blew my mind) or I couldn’t do my work without it.

[Nivetha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very useful

[Arnav Mendiratta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not exactly THE book for EMFT, but definitely one that ignited a spark of intellect in me for this subject.