The Science of Radio: With Matlab and Electronics Workbench Demonstrations

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Summary: One of the Best Written Books on AM Radio
Review: 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!

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Summary: With or without Matlab, it is still the best radio book
Review: 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.

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Summary: Well done
Review: 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.

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Summary: A revelation!
Review: 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.

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Summary: With or without Matlab, it is still the best radio book
Review: Mr.Nahin, could you please write more books like this... ?

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Summary: a good book with bad opinions
Review: This is an excellent book which combines the history, the
mathematics and the physics of radio. It is not a textbook
and you need to know calculus and physics to understand its
technical chapters. It has ten appendices, they explain the
"bottom" material or background needed in the book. However,
the all book is well written and it has an excellent presentation.
I think that the author's opinions about the
radio developers such as Marconi, DeForest and Tesla
are out of place in a book like this. So I gave three starts.