The Science of Radio

by Paul J. Nahin

Book Overview

By focusing specifically on 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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563963477
• ISBN13: 9781563963476
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: American Institute of Physics
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

One of the Best Written Books on AM Radio

As a physics student and a beginner analog circuit designer with an interest in RF circuit design, I can highly recommend this book. Most books on RF design simply jump to quickly and assume a bunch of prerequsite knowledge, and also assume you don't need to understand the physics (or science) of what is going on, but only understand the models to be used to plug numbers into. I've had a hard time putting this book down, it is really great. It will definitely help you gain an intutive understanding of HOW IT ALL WORKS! Also, after reading all about spark radios, I discovered that my uncle was a spark radio operator in WWII! Now I really understand what he did!

With or without Matlab, it is still the best radio book

Mr.Nahin, could you please write more books like this... ?

Well done

I have been a fan of Paul Nahin's writting since I came across his book an imaginary tale ... In this text he clearly describes the history as well as the EE of radio. It is an excellent book and I especially enjoyed the appendices and matlab and electronics workbench examples.

A revelation!

I've never met a technical book as well-written as this one. Imagine what if Maxwell's Treatise had been written by himself in collaboration with Martin Gardner and ... Bill Bryson! Paul Nahin is a great writer, and I can only imagine how great a teacher he must be. I will buy every single book he writes. Don't be misled: this is a very serious book, and the pleasure of its reading comes from a very sound teaching philosophy (called top-down by Nahin) combined with a knack for history, which gives context to every topic. Look at the table of contents, and you will see that the author means business.