TERMAN: Radio Engineering
Frederick Emmons TERMAN, Sc. D.

Radio Engineering

First Edition, Sixth Impression

New York and London, McGraw-Hill, 1932

CONTENTS
PREFACE

CHAPTER I
THE ELEMENTS OF A SYSTEM OF RADIO COMMUNICATION
SECTION
1. Radio Waves
2. Radiation of Electrical Energy
3. Generation and Control of Radio-Frequency Power
4. Reception of Radio Signals
5. Nature of a Modulated Wave

CHAPTER II
CIRCUIT CONSTANTS
6. Inductance
7. Mutual Inductance and Coefficient of Coupling
8. Condensers and Dielectrics
9. The Effective Resistance of Coils and Conductors at Radio Frequencies
10. Types of Coils Used in Radio Work
11. Electrostatic and Electromagnetic Shielding of Coils
12. Radio-Frequency Coils with Magnetic Cores

CHAPTER III
PROPERTIES OF RESONANT CIRCUITS
13. Series Resonance
14. Parallel Resonance
15. Voltage and Current Distribution in Circuits with Distributed Constants
16. Inductively Coupled Circuits-Theory
17. Inductively Coupled Circuits with Tuned Secondary
18. Mutual Inductance Effects Produced by Masses of Conducting Material and Short-circuited Turns
19. Other Types of Coupling
20. Band-pass Filters
21. The Analysis of Complex Circuits

CHAPTER IV
FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES OF VACUUM TUBES
22. Vacuum Tubes
23. Electrons and Ions
24. Motions of Electrons and Ions
25. Thermionic Emission of Electrons
26. Electron-emitting Materials
27. Current Flow in a Two-electrode Tube-Space-charge Effects
28. Action of the Grid
29. Characteristic Curves of Triodos
30. Vacuum-tube Constants
31. Constructional Features of Small Tubes

CHAPTER V
TRIODE AMPLIFIERS
32. Vacuum-tube Amplifiers
33. Distortion in Amplifiers
34. Equivalent Circuit of the Vacuum-tube Amplifier
35. Audio-frequency Voltage Amplifiers-Resistance Coupling
36. Audio-frequency Voltage Amplifiers-Impedance Coupling
37. Audio-frequency Voltage Amplifiers-Transformer Coupling
38. Miscellaneous Types of Audio-frequency Amplifiers
39. Power Amplifiers

CHAPTER VI
TRIODE AMPLIFIERS-Continued
40. Multistage Audio-frequency Amplifiers
41. Miscellaneous Characteristics of Audio-frequency Amplifiers
42. Radio-frequency Voltage Amplification
43. Input Admittance of Triode Amplifiers
44. Neutralization of Input Admittance of Vaccum-tube Amplifiers
45. Noise Level of Amplifiers
46. Class B (Linear) Power Amplifiers
47. Direct-coupled Amplifiers
48. Vacuum-tube Harmonic Generators

CHAPTER VII
VACUUM-TUBE OSCILLATORS
49. Vacuum-tube Oscillator Circuits
50. Voltage and Current Relations in Oscillating Circuits
51. Adjustment and Design of Oscillator Circuits
52. Miscellaneous Characteristics of Oscillating Circuits
53. Frequency of Generated Oscillations
54. Characteristics of Tubes Suitable for Use in Oscillators
55. Crystal Oscillator
56. Magnetostriction Oscillators
57. The Multivibrator
58. Barkhausen Oscillations

CHAPTER VIII
VACUUM-TUBE DETECTORS
59. Detection of Radio Signals
60. Power Detector Using anode Rectification
61. Power Detection Usind Grid Rectification
62. Grid Rectification of Small signals
63. Weak-signal Anode Rectification
64. Comparison of Detection Methods
65. Heterodyne Detection
66. Regenerative Detectors
67. Oscillating Detectors
68. Superregeneration
69. Miscellaneous Features of Detection

CHAPTER IX
SPECIAL TYPES OF VACUUM TUBES
70. Screen-grid Tubes
71. The Screen-grid Amplifier
72. Radio-frequency Amplification with Screen-grid Tubes
73. Audio-frequency Amplification with Screen-grid Tubes
74. Power Amplification with Screen-grid Tubes
75. Space-charge Grid Tubes
76. Co-planar Grid Tubes
77. Pentodes
78. Miscellaneous Uses of Screen-grid, Space-charge Grid, Co-planar Grid, and Fice-electrode Tubes
79. The Dynatron
80. Inverted Vacuum Tubes
81. The Magnetron
82. Variable-mu Tubes

CHAPTER X
MODULATION
83. Waves with Amplitude Modulation
84. The Plate-modulated Oscillator
85. Plate-modulated Class C Amplifiers
86. The van der Bijl Type of Nodulated Class A Amplifiers
87. Miscellaneous Methods of Modulation
88. Carrier-suppression and Single Side-band Systems of Communication
89. Frequency and Phase Modulation

CHAPTER XI
SOURCES OF POWER FOR OPERATING VACUUM TUBES
90. Cathode Heating Power
91. The Grid-bias Voltage
92. Sources of Anode Power
93. Rectifiers for Supplying Anode Power
94. Rectifier Circuits
95. Filter Circuits Having a Series Inductance Input
96. Filter Circuits Having a Shunt-condenser Input
97. Filter Circuits-Miscellaneous Comments
98. Filters Employing Resonant Elements
99. Self-rectifying Circuits
100. Power Supply Systems for Aircraft Equipment

CHAPTER XII
RADIO TRANSMITTERS
101. Radio Transmitters-General Considerations
102. Short-wave Code Transmitters
103. Moderate- and Long-wave Code Transmitters
104. Keying of Code Transmitters
105. Radio-telephone Transmitters
106. Miscellaneous Features of Radio Transmitters
107. Ultra Short-wave Transmitters

CHAPTER XIII
RADIO RECEIVERS
108. Broadcast Receivers-General Considerations
109. Typical Broadcast Receivers
110. Miscellaneous Types of Broadcast Receivers
111. Cross-talk
112. Miscellaneous Features of Broadcast Receivers
113. Design of Radio Receivers
114. Receivers for the Reception of Telephone Signals of Other Than Broadcast Frequencies
115. Receivers for Telegraph Signals
116. Receiving Systems for Minimizing Fading
117. Receptios of Very High Frequency Waves

CHAPTER XIV
ANTENNAS
118. Fundamental Laws of Radiation
119. Fundamental Properties of Receiving Antennas and Reciprocal Relations Existing between Transmitting and Reciving Properties
120. Directional Characteristics of Simple Antennas
121. Fundamental Principles of Antenna Arrays
122. Directive Antennas Employing Long Wires
123. Antenna Formulas
124. Wave Reflectors and Directors
125. Radio-frequency Transmission Lines
126. Typical Short-wave Transmitting Antennas
127. Transmitting Antennas for Broadcast and Lower Frequencies
128. Receiving Antennas
129. Antennas for Use on Aircraft

CHAPTER XV
PROPAGATION OF RADIO WAVES
130. Factors Affecting the Propagation of Radio Waves
131. Propagation of Low-frequency Radio Waves
132. The Propagation of Waves of Broadcast Frequencies (Frequency Range 550 to 1500 Kc)
133. Propagation Characteristics of Short Waves (Frequency Range 1500 to 30,000 Kc)
134. Use of Radio Waves in Investigations of the Upper Atmosphere
135. Propagation of Ultra-high Frequency Waves
136. Relation of Solar Activity and Meteorologial Conditions to the Propagation of Radio Waves
137. Noise and Static

CHAPTER XVI
RADIO AIDS TO NAVIGATION
138. Fundamental Principles of Radio Direction Finding
139. Practical Systems of Direction Finding
140. The Radio Range

CHAPTER XVII
RADIO MEASUREMENTS
SECTION
141. Resistance
142. Measurements of Capacity
143. Inductance and Mutual Inductance
144. The Measurement of Current
145. Audio- and Radio-frequency Waves
146. Determination of Frequency
147. Tube Characteristics
148. Voltage Amplification
149. Receiver Characteristics
150. Field-strength Measurements
151. Degree of Modulation
152. Wave Form
153. Beat-frequency Oscillators
154. Cathode-ray Oscillograph

CHAPTER XVIII
SOUND AND SOUND EQUIPMENT
155. Characteristics of Audible Sounds
156. Elements of Acoustics
157. Characteristics of the Human Ear
158. The Telephon Receiver
159. Horn-type Loud-speakers
160. Piston-type Loud-speakers
161. Microphones
162. Measurements, with Particular Reference to the Determination of Microphone and Loud-speaker Characteristics

APPENDIX A
164. Formulas for Calculating Inductance, Mutual Inductance, and Capacity

APPENDIX B
THE DECIBEL
INDEX


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