Antenna Theory: Analysis and Design, 3rd Edition

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 1136 pages
• Published by: Wiley-Interscience
• Edition: 3rd Edition April 4, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 047166782X
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471667827
• Book Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.2 x 2.3 inches
• Weighs: 4.4 pounds

Product Description
The discipline of antenna theory has experienced vast technological changes. In response, Constantine Balanis has updated his classic text, Antenna Theory, offering the most recent look at all the necessary topics. New material includes smart antennas and fractal antennas, along with the latest applications in wireless communications. Multimedia material on an accompanying CD presents PowerPoint viewgraphs of lecture notes, interactive review questions, Java animations and applets, and MATLAB features. Like the previous editions, Antenna Theory, Third Edition meets the requirements of electrical engineering and physics students at the senior undergraduate and beginning graduate levels, and those of practicing engineers as well. It is a benchmark text for mastering the latest theory in the subject, and for better understanding the technological applications.

An Instructor's Manual presenting detailed solutions to all the problems in the book is available from the Wiley editorial department.

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The new edition of a classic resource for the study of antenna theory, updated with Multimedia Material

The discipline of antenna theory has experienced vast technological changes. In response, Constantine Balanis has updated his classic text, Antenna Theory, offering the most recent look at all the necessary topics. Like the previous editions, Antenna Theory, Third Edition is designed to meet the requirements of electrical engineering and physics students at the senior undergraduate and beginning graduate levels, and those of practicing engineers as well. The text assumes that the readers have a knowledge of basic undergraduate electromagnetic theory, including Maxwell's equations and the wave equation, introductory physics, and differential and integral calculus.

The Third Edition offers new material that includes:

• A chapter on smart antennas, which is presently a hot topic of current interest to antenna engineers in a number of application areas, especially wireless communication
• A fractal antenna section, which introduces a new class of antennas that has received a lot of interest and attention after the second edition was published
• New end-of-chapter tables that provide a summary of important equations in each of the respective chapters
• Additional new figures, photos, and tables to better illustrate concepts
• Additional end-of-the-chapter problems

An important new feature is the multimedia material on the accompanying CD, which presents:

• PowerPoint view graphs of lecture notes
• End-of-the-chapter interactive questions for revie
• Animations and applets for most of the chapters based on Java
• Second-edition FORTRAN computer programs translated to MATLAB®
• Additional new computer programs based on MATLAB® with applications to topics in the various chapters

Reader Reviews
The author has done a good job of scouring the antenna literature and summarizing all of the equations in one place. The problem is the lack of any discussion about what the equations mean. I am reminded of the definition of a college education given by Prof. McWhorter of Stanford, "the process of the professors notes becoming the student's notes without having passed through the mind of either." If you are an experienced antenna designer, this book will be of help. If you want to learn from scratch, try the 50 year old book by Kraus.