Basic Electronic Communication - Roy Blake - 1993 - Hardcover - West Publishing Company

Basic Electronic Communication

Intended for use in two-, three-, and four-year programs in electronics technology, Basic Electronic Communication accommodates a variety of course structures and curriculums. The book can be used for a single-term course (covering Chapters 1-9 plus the instructor's choices of later topics) or for a two-term course or two-course sequence (with Chapters 1-9 as the first course and 10-16 as the second).
The early chapters give students a strong foundation in analog communications, stressing amplitude and frequency modulation and their variations. Material on antennas, transmission lines, and propagation is also presented. Later chapters cover specialty subjects such as microwaves, fiber optics, digital and data communications, and television.
At colleges that offer separate courses on the topics covered in later chapters, Basic Electronic Communication will serve as a valuable introduction and reference, but it will be especially useful for programs that do not offer separate courses on these specialty subjects. Since basic material is reviewed when it is put to use in more specialized chapters, instructors can tailor the specialty topics covered and the order in which they are covered to best fit their course requirements.
Basic Electronic Communication introduces major topics through a block-diagram approach, using just enough mathematics to make the material clear, and progresses to discussions of the representative sections of most interest. It balances a systems orientation with sufficient detail about "real world" applications and procedures to equip students to do useful "real world" work. They are encouraged to think about systems in ways that will continue to serve them well as technology continues to evolve.
Each chapter opens with a list of objectives to which students can refer while reading the material. Each section covers essential theory before discussing one or more representative systems. Examples use actual equipment, complete with photographs and manufacturer's specifications. To further motivate students (and to anchor lab work into the main course), many chapters also include sections on troubleshooting applications, test equipment, and measurement techniques. Special interest boxes present additional links to everyday life and add historical perspective. More specialized optional sections (marked with asterisks in the table of contents) can be included or omitted from chapters at the instructor's discretion. Content is reinforced by a chapter summary and a list of important terms and equations. Each chapter concludes with numerous questions and problems, with the answers to odd-numbered problems provided at the back of the book.