Acknowledgments .................................................................

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A Note to Professors............................................................
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Prologue........................................................................
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Section 1 Mostly History and a Little Math......................................
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Chapter 1 Solution to An Old Problem....................................
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Chapter 2 Pre-Radio History of Radio Waves..............................
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Chapter 3 Antennas as Launchers and Interceptors of Electromagnetic Wave
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Chapter 4 Early Radio...................................................
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Chapter 5 Receiving Spark Transmitter Signals...........................
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Chapter 6 Mathematics of AM Sidebands...................................
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Chapter 7 First Continuous Waves and Heterodyne Concept.................
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Chapter 8 Birth of Electronics..........................................
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Section 2 Mostly Math and a Little History.....................................
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Chapter 9 Fourier Series and Their Physical Meaning.....................
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Chapter 10 Convergence in Energy of the Fourier Series..................
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Chapter 11 Radio Spectrum of a Spark-Gap Transmitter....................
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Chapter 12 Fourier Integral Theorem, and the Continuous Spectrum of a No
n-Periodic Time Signal..........................................................
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Chapter 13 Physical Meaning of the Fourier Transform....................
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Chapter 14 Impulse "Functions" in Time and Frequency....................
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Chapter 15 Convolution Theorems, Frequency Shifts, and Causal Time Signa
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Section 3 Nonlinear Circuits for Multiplication................................

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Chapter 16 Multiplying by Squaring and Filtering........................
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Chapter 17 Squaring and Multiplying with Matched Nonlinearities.........
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Chapter 18 Multiplying by "Sampling and Filtering.......................
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Section 4 The Mathematics of "Unmultiplying....................................
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Chapter 19 Synchronous Demodulation and Its Problems....................
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Chapter 20 Analytic Signals and Single-Sideband Radio...................
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Chapter 21 Denouement...................................................
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Epilogue................................................................
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Technical Appendices............................................................
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Appendix A Complex Exponentials.........................................
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Appendix B What Is (and Is Not) a Linear Time-Invariant System..........
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Appendix C Two-Terminal Components, Kirchhoff's Circuit Laws, Complex Im
pedances, ac Amplitude and Phase Responses, Power, Energy, and Initial Condition
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Appendix D Resonance in Electrical Circuits.............................
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Appendix E Reversing the Order of Integration on Double Integrals, and D
ifferentiating an Integral......................................................
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Appendix F The Fourier Integral Theorem (How Mathematicians Do It)......
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Appendix G The Hilbert Integral Transform...............................
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Appendix H Table of Fourier Transform Pairs and Theorems................
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Last Words......................................................................
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Name Index......................................................................
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