Satellite Communications Physics

Satellite Communications Physics

Despite the title, this is not a physics textbook, and it will tell you only part of the fascinating story of satellite communications. However, we have tried to tell this story in a rather special way. Part I explains why we are so interested in communicating by means of man-made satellites, describes the important events in the progress of satellite communications (with special emphasis on Project Telstar), and points out some of the very knotty problems that had to be solved. Then, in Part II, we pick out six typical satellite communications problems and go into them more deeply. These case histories are examples of the things scientists and engineers are constantly faced with. To narrate them we have called on six expertsBell Telephone Laboratories engineers and scientists who actually have been working on the problems. The second half of our book is taken up by their accounts of their own personal experiences. We hope that reading them will give you an insight into what it is really like to be a scientist or engineer working in a laboratory on an important new venture into the future. We hope you will see that what they do is not all excitement and glamour. It involves hard work, ingenious thinking, and plugging away at tough problems. But this is what scientists and engineers enjoyalong with the excitement and glamour, of course. Only a part of what our authors talk about can strictly be called physicsit is also engineering, chemistry, mathematics, and even psychology. 9 But almost all their work is basedwhen you get down to fundamentalson basic principles of classical physics taught in high school. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 62886
Author: Foster, R. M. (Ronald Martin)
Release Date: Aug 9, 2020
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Editor: Foster, R. M. (Ronald Martin), 1896-1998