Radar, The Electronic Eye

Author: Maurice Rubin

Publisher: Chemical Publishing Company

Publication date: 4/3/1963 12:00:00 AM

Abstract:

In order to understand microwave radar, the ordinary radio fan and layman should acquire a knowledge of wave guides and fields. Your echo was made up of sound waves, whereas the radar employs high-frequency radio waves measured in centimeters. Before we show what radar did for us in the late wars, it may be well to dispel some of the atmosphere of mystery that surrounds it. In a wave, guide, in the dominant mode, the voltage is greater across points of a diameter. In radar that i The notation of " direction and y direction is borrowed from the rectangular coordinate system used in graphic analysis.