Satellite Communications
by Timothy Pratt, Charles W. Bostian, Jeremy E. Allnutt
Book Summary Information
Author: Charles W. Bostian, Jeremy E. Allnutt, Timothy PrattEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-10-25
ISBN: 047137007X
Number of pages: 560
Publisher: Wiley
Book Reviews of Satellite Communications
Book Review: In Reality, the Simplified, Friendly, and Useful Results of Vector Calculus and Hardcore Newtonian-Maxwellian Intuition
Summary: 5 Stars
The first edition of this book was assigned to me as part of a satellite communication's course.
Given that the book's focus is on various aspects of an end-to-end satellite communication's link, I must admit that the inclusion of some of the material can seem rather mysterious. In particular, the Orbital Mechanics in chapter 2 (of 1st edition) doesn't at first appear to fit with the rest of the text.
My reading of the book in school and at Hughes/Boeing Satellite Systems revealed that this was a great book. Somehow, mysteriously, always containing passages that were brief and accurate, but also extremely useful and easy-to-understand. With hindsight, even the chapter on Orbital Mechanics with its bit of vector calculus now seems a very clever way of stating the obvious. Mathematical physics not only remains extremely important and necessary but also provides the means, or in other words methods, by which the results of this text were developed. It's only in the name of efficiency that most of the text states its results without the heavy-duty machinary of mathematical physics showing.
I can now easily see and easily state that, in reality, the rest of the book contains the DIRECT RESULTS of vector calculus and Hardcore Newtonian-Maxwellian Intuition. It is a tribute to the politeness and virtue of Pratt and Bostian that despite their understanding of vector calculus in orbital mechanics and electromagnetics, their text has only the barest traces of such advanced and extremely demanding techniques.
Superficially, the text appears simple. In fact, it looks almost vocational until one ponders upon the engineering and physical situations involved, seeing them with the eyes of historical perspective.
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