Microwave and Radar Engineering

Contents

Preface xxi

Acknowledgements xxv

List of Symbols xxvii

1 Vector Analysis

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Scalar and Vector

1.2.1 Scalar Field

1.2.2 Vector Field

1.2.3 Unit Vector

1.3 Vector Algebra

1.3.1 Vector Addition and Vector Subtraction

1.3.2 Position and Distance Vectors

1.3.3 Vector Multiplication

1.4 Coordinate Systems

1.4.1 Cartesian Coordinate System

1.4.2 Cylindrical Coordinate System

1.4.3 Spherical Coordinate System

1.4.4 Conversion of Vector between the Coordinate Systems

1.5 Vector Calculus

1.5.1 Differential Length, Area and Volume

1.5.2 Line, Surface and Volume Integrals

1.5.3 Del Operator ∇

1.5.4 Gradient of a Scalar Field

1.5.5 Divergence of a Vector Field

1.5.6 Divergence Theorem

1.5.7 Curl of a Vector Field

1.5.8 Stokes’s ...