1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781818503321

Titolo

Small tech [[electronic resource] ] : the culture of digital tools / / Byron Hawk, David M. Rieder, and Ollie Oviedo, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8166-5385-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Collana

Electronic mediations ; ; 22

Altri autori (Persone)

HawkByron

OviedoOllie O

RiederDavid M

Disciplina

303.48

303.483

Soggetti

Cell phones - Social aspects

Cyberspace

Digital music players - Social aspects

Household electronics - Social aspects

Mass media - Technological innovations

Miniature electronic equipment - Social aspects

Pocket computers - Social aspects

Telematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

; Introduction, On small tech and complex ecologies / Byron Hawk and David M. Rieder -- Date visualization as new abstraction and as anti-sublime / Lev Manovich -- Softvideography : digital video as postliterate practice / Adrian Miles -- Technopolitics, blogs, and emergent media ecologies : a critical/reconstructive approach / Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner -- Remembering dinosaurs : toward an archaeological understanding of digital photo manipulation / Karla Saari Kitalong -- Cut, copy, and paste / Lance Strate -- Dreamweaver and the procession of simulations : what you see is not why you get what you get / Sean D. Williams -- Revisiting the matter and manner of linking in new media / Collin Gifford Brooke -- Scripted writing: exploring generative dimensions of writing in flash ActionScript / David



M. Rieder -- Overhearing : the intimate life of cell phones / Jenny Edbauer Rice -- I am a DJ, I am what I say : the rise of podcasting / Paul Cesarini -- Walking with texts : using PDAs to manage textual information / Jason Swarts -- Text messaging : rhetoric in a new keypad / Wendy Warren Austin -- Beyond Napster : peer-to-peer technology and network culture / Michael Pennell -- Communication breakdown : the postmodern space of Google / Johndan Johnson-Eilola -- Let there be light in the digital darkroom : digital ecologies and the new photography / Robert A. Emmons Jr. -- "A demonstration of practice" : the real presence of digital video / Veronique Chance -- Buffering Bergson : matter and memory in 3D games / Julian Oliver -- Shifting subjects in locative media / Teri Rueb -- Virtual reality as a teaching tool : learning by configuring / James J. Sosnoski -- Digital provocations and applied aesthetics : projects in speculative computing / Johanna Drucker -- Dehumanization, rhetoric, and the design of wearable augmented reality interfaces / Isabel Pedersen -- Sousveillance : wearable and digital tools in surveilled environments / Jason Nolan, Steve Mann, and Barry Wellman -- Ambient video : the transformation of the domestic cinematic experience / Jim Bizzocchi -- Sound in domestic virtual environments / Jeremy Yuille -- Getting real and feeling in control : haptic interfaces / Joanna Castner Post -- Digital craft and digital touch : hands-on design with an "undo" button / Mark Paterson.

Sommario/riassunto

Experts examine the ways digital tools affect social and cultural experience.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996213308203316

Autore

White Joseph F. <1938->

Titolo

High frequency techniques [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction to RF and microwave engineering / / Joseph F. White

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Piscataway, N.J.?], : IEEE Press

Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley-Interscience, c2004

ISBN

1-119-33604-X

1-280-34469-5

9786610344697

0-470-35515-8

0-471-47481-9

0-471-47482-7

Edizione

[1st ed]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 502 pages) : illustrations

Collana

New York Academy of Sciences Ser.

Disciplina

621.384/12

Soggetti

Microwave circuits

Radio circuits

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

HIGH FREQUENCY TECHNIQUES; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Beginning of Wireless; 1.2 Current Radio Spectrum; 1.3 Conventions Used in This Text; Sections; Equations; Figures; Exercises; Symbols; Prefixes; Fonts; 1.4 Vectors and Coordinates; 1.5 General Constants and Useful Conversions; 2 Review of AC Analysis and Network Simulation; 2.1 Basic Circuit Elements; The Resistor; Ohm's Law; The Inductor; The Capacitor; 2.2 Kirchhoff's Laws; 2.3 Alternating Current (AC) Analysis; Ohm's Law in Complex Form; 2.4 Voltage and Current Phasors; 2.5 Impedance; Estimating Reactance

Addition of Series Impedances 2.6 Admittance; Admittance Definition; Addition of Parallel Admittances; The Product over the Sum; 2.7 LLFPB Networks; 2.8 Decibels, dBW, and dBm; Logarithms (Logs); Multiplying by Adding Logs; Dividing by Subtracting Logs; Zero Powers; Bel Scale; Decibel Scale; Decibels-Relative Measures; Absolute Power Levels-dBm and dBW; Decibel Power Scales; 2.9 Power Transfer; Calculating Power Transfer; Maximum Power Transfer; 2.10 Specifying Loss; Insertion



Loss; Transducer Loss; Loss Due to Series Impedance; Loss Due to Shunt Admittance

Loss in Terms of Scattering Parameters 2.11 Real RLC Models; Resistor with Parasitics; Inductor with Parasitics; Capacitor with Parasitics; 2.12 Designing LC Elements; Lumped Coils; High m Inductor Cores-the Hysteresis Curve; Estimating Wire Inductance; Parallel Plate Capacitors; 2.13 Skin Effect; 2.14 Network Simulation; 3 LC Resonance and Matching Networks; 3.1 LC Resonance; 3.2 Series Circuit Quality Factors; Q of Inductors and Capacitors; Q(E), External Q; Q(L), Loaded Q; 3.3 Parallel Circuit Quality Factors; 3.4 Coupled Resonators; Direct Coupled Resonators; Lightly Coupled Resonators

3.5 Q Matching Low to High Resistance; Broadbanding the Q Matching Method; High to Low Resistance; 4 Distributed Circuit Design; 4.1 Transmission Lines; 4.2 Wavelength in a Dielectric; 4.3 Pulses on Transmission Lines; 4.4 Incident and Reflected Waves; 4.5 Reflection Coefficient; 4.6 Return Loss; 4.7 Mismatch Loss; 4.8 Mismatch Error; 4.9 The Telegrapher Equations; 4.10 Transmission Line Wave Equations; 4.11 Wave Propagation; 4.12 Phase and Group Velocities; 4.13 Reflection Coefficient and Impedance; 4.14 Impedance Transformation Equation; 4.15 Impedance Matching with One Transmission Line

4.16 Fano's (and Bode's) Limit Type A Mismatched Loads; Type B Mismatched Loads; Impedance Transformation Not Included; 5 The Smith Chart; 5.1 Basis of the Smith Chart; 5.2 Drawing the Smith Chart; 5.3 Admittance on the Smith Chart; 5.4 Tuning a Mismatched Load; 5.5 Slotted Line Impedance Measurement; 5.6 VSWR = r; 5.7 Negative Resistance Smith Chart; 5.8 Navigating the Smith Chart; 5.9 Smith Chart Software; 5.10 Estimating Bandwidth on the Smith Chart; 5.11 Approximate Tuning May Be Better; 5.12 Frequency Contours on the Smith Chart; 5.13 Using the Smith Chart without Transmission Lines

5.14 Constant Q Circles

Sommario/riassunto

A practical guide for today's wireless engineer High Frequency Techniques: An Introduction to RF and Microwave Engineering is a clearly written classical circuit and field theory text illustrated with modern computer simulation software. The book's ten chapters cover:* The origins and current uses of wireless transmission* A review of AC analysis, Kirchhoff's laws, RLC elements, skin effect, and introduction to the use of computer simulation software* Resonators, Q definitions, and Q-based impedance matching* Transmission lines, waves, VSWR, reflection phenomena, Fano's