June 2010
Intermediate to advanced
301 pages
9h 35m
English
book
Radiowave Propagation: Physics and Applications
by Curt A. Levis, Joel T. Johnson, Fernando L. Teixeira
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INDEX
Air-to-air communications, 7, 12
Antenna, 56
aperture, 64
dissipated power, 58
effective aperture, 65
effective length, 63
efficiency, 58
loss resistance, 58
omnidirectional, 77
parameters, 57
pattern measurements, 60
power pattern, 59
radiation resistance, 58
receive properties, 62
temperature, 70
Antenna-to-medium coupling factor, 79, 285
Appleton-Hartree equation, 241, 246, 247
Atmosferics, 73
density, 217
gas attenuation, 80
loss, 78
nomenclature, 227
slant, 83
vertical, 82
properties, 217
standard refractive conditions, 127
Bandwidth
coherence, 185
correlation, 186
of a medium, 41
signal, 185
Basic maximum usable frequency (BMUF), 263
Blackbody, 70
Boundary conditions, 18, 108, 111
Breit and Tuve's theorem, 260
Brewster angle, 117
temperature, 70
sky, 75
Cellular communications, 1, 8, 161
adaptive, 185
Channel sounding, 185
Characteristic impedance, 240
Characteristic polarizations, 241, 246, 248
Characteristic times, 22
Charge conservation, 19
Charge continuity equations, 17–19
Coherence bandwidth, 185
Coherence time, 186
Committee on Space Research, 229
Common volume, ...
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