Electromagnetics: Theory, Techniques, and Engineering Paradigms / Edition 1

by Giorgio Franceschetti

Overview

During the last twenty years the lifestyle of a large portion of the inhabitants of our planet has changed dramatically. This would never have been possible without the massive use of electronic and photonic technology, telecommunications, and computers. These disciplines are designed to code, transmit, detect, decode, and process signals and related information, and can be broadly addressed as information science and technology. In the sophisticated society in which we live and operate, this science is diffused transversely and plays a major role in almost every human activity. Information science and technology is the basis of a powerful industry that does not suffer the shortcomings of more traditional human enterprises. Information is a renewable source and its control and processing rely on software codes, which are a creation of the mind, and on related hardware, incredibly sophisticated but made out of simple, abundant materials. The rate of change and transformation of this industry is the highest mankind has ever experienced, and it requires not only the replacement of technologies but also a continuous updating of expertise to keep up with the rapid transformation. There is no doubt that this calls for a change in university training, to avoid students graduating at an already obsolete level.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306455278
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	06/30/1997
Series:	Language of Science Series
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	568
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.05(d)

Table of Contents

1. Fundamentals.- 2. Elementary Solutions.- 3. Spectral Domains.- 4. Narrowband Signals and Phasor Fields.- 5. High-Frequency Fields.- 6. The Numerical Domain.- 7. Engineering Topics: Propagation.- 8. Engineering Topics: Radiation.- 9. Engineering Topics: Scattering.- Appendixes.- A. Vector Analysis.- B. Dyadic Analysis.- C. Useful Integrals and Series.- D. Special Functions and Asymptotic Evaluations.

Editorial Reviews

Designed for a two-semester graduate course, this text covers the fundamentals and emphasizes keywords which can be used to retrieve data from the extensive electronic databases that are available. Chapters cover electromagnetic theory; simple solutions of Maxwell equations for propagation and radiation; techniques used in solving the electromagnetic equations; the problem of narrowband signals; electromagnetic equations in the high-frequency regime; numerical techniques that form the basis of the electromagnetic solver packages; and propagation, radiation, and scattering applications from the application point of view. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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