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Electronic Communications System: Fundamentals Through Advanced

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Description Comprehensive in scope and contemporary in coverage, thistext introduces basic electronic and data communicationsfundamentals, and explores their application in modern digital anddata communications systems. Students with previous knowledge inbasic electronic principles and fundamental calculus concepts willgain a complete understanding of the topics presented here.Tomasi's Advanced Electronic Communications Systems 6/e is the last10 chapters of this text. Rewritten material on satellites ?Includes their history; orbits; elevation categories; orbital patterns; and antenna look angles. Materials in the Fundamentals chapters on AM envelopes ?Produced by complex nonsinusoidal signals, Quadrature Amplitude Modulation, noise limiters and blankers, alternate signal-to-noise measurements, single-sideband suppressed carrier, frequency division multiplexing, double-sideband suppressed carrier, quadrature multiplexing, microstrip, and stripline. Material in the Advanced chapters ?On trellis encoding, CCITT modem recommendations, PCM line speed, extended superframe format, wavelength division multiplexing, Kepler's laws, Clark orbits, limits of visibility, Satellite Radio Navigation and Navstar GPS. Optical fiber communications has been moved from Chapter 20 to Chapter 11 ?Includes new sections on light sources, optical power, optical sources and link budget. Introduction to Electronic Communications. Signal Analysis and Mixing. Oscillators, Phase?Locked Loops, and Frequency Synthesizers. Amplitude Modulation Transmission. Amplitude Modulation Reception. Single?Sideband Communications Systems. Angle Modulation Transmission. Angle Modulation Reception and FM Stereo. Digital Modulation. Digital Transmission. Digital T-Carriers and Multiplexing. Metallic Cable Transmission Media. Optical Fiber Transmission Media. Electromagnetic Wave Propagation. Antennas and Waveguides. Telephone Instruments and Signals. The Telephone Circuit. The Public Telephone Network. Cel

1184 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1987

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Peter J. Tomasi

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Peter J. Tomasi is an American comic book writer, best known for his work for DC Comics, such as Batman And Robin; Superman; Super Sons; Batman: Detective Comics; Green Lantern Corps; and Superman/Wonder Woman; as well as Batman: Arkham Knight; Brightest Day; Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors; Nightwing; Black Adam, and many more.

In the course of his staff career at DC Comics, Tomasi served as a group editor and ushered in new eras for Batman, Green Lantern, and the JSA, along with a host of special projects like Kingdom Come.

He is also the author of the creator-owned titles House Of Penance with artist Ian Bertram; Light Brigade with artist Peter Snejbjerg; The Mighty with Keith Champagne and Chris Samnee; and the critically acclaimed epic graphic novel The Bridge: How The Roeblings Connected Brooklyn To New York, illustrated by Sara DuVall and published by Abrams ComicArts.

In 2018 New York Times best-selling author Tomasi received the Inkpot Award for achievement in comics.

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December 16, 2010
Many sentences and even paragraphs are redundant. This may help for retention of information but not for fast learning and covering of a wide range of topics.
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