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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 needs 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 needs 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
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I used this book in a graduate Antennas course. I found it to be well organized and the most thorough of the three books on this subject I have used. Equations and their derivations were easy to follow. Problems were clear and followed the level of introduction in the text. All necessary material was clearly introduced. I would recommend this text to any professor looking for a good solid antennas text.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Would I recommend the book? Yes and No.
Yes for the student in RF engineering.
No for the engineers looking for a practical guide.
It's a very academic book and as such is probably the best option out there. If however one is lookig for a "practical guide" to antenna design then there are other books out there that do a much better job in a far less verbose format.
Having left university quite a while ago the high level of maths in this book are a major turn off. It's not unsurmountable though. It just takes time for things to come back from the depths of memory.
The accompanying CD is only of avlue if you have access to Matlab as that is the author's tool of choice. In the age of open-source software one would expect the use of scilab or similar.
Did it help me in my job? Not quite. But then it takes time to digest the 1600+ pages into something useful. Would I have bought it if I had seen it in a library first? No, never...
Yes for the student in RF engineering.
No for the engineers looking for a practical guide.
It's a very academic book and as such is probably the best option out there. If however one is lookig for a "practical guide" to antenna design then there are other books out there that do a much better job in a far less verbose format.
Having left university quite a while ago the high level of maths in this book are a major turn off. It's not unsurmountable though. It just takes time for things to come back from the depths of memory.
The accompanying CD is only of avlue if you have access to Matlab as that is the author's tool of choice. In the age of open-source software one would expect the use of scilab or similar.
Did it help me in my job? Not quite. But then it takes time to digest the 1600+ pages into something useful. Would I have bought it if I had seen it in a library first? No, never...
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Balanis makes some serious pedagogical mistakes when he uses concepts before defining them. He also have some problems with coordinate systems. For example he is using spherical coordinate systems on the poles. This makes me confused. It may be a nice book for an engineer but not for a physicist.
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