ground (Cont.)
signal, 358
systems for antennas, 477–478
grounded-cathode circuit, 508–509
grounded-grid circuit, 508–509
ground-mounted vertical antenna, 475
ground-plane antenna, 475
Gunn diode, 330–331
Gunn effect, 330
Gunnplexer, 331
H
hacker, 562–563
half-wave
antenna, 473–474
rectification, 28–29, 325–326, 338–340,
342–343
ham radio, 559–560
handheld scanner, 579
handoff, 554
hand-print recognition, 565
hard drive, 128, 571–572
harmonic, 148–149, 280, 326–327, 539
Hartley oscillator, 394–395
HDTV. See high-definition television
headphone radio, 546
headset, 543
heatsink, 338
helical antenna, 485
helium, 4
henry, 161
heptode tube, 507–508
hertz, 27–28, 143–144
heterodyne, 327
hexadecimal number system, 443
hexode tube, 507–508
HF. See high frequency
high-definition television, 417–418
high frequency, 424
highpass response, 493–494
high-tension transmission line, 155, 293
hole, 10, 317–318
horizontal polarization, 421
horn antenna, 485–486
hot-wire meter, 39
hue, in color image, 453
hydrogen, 3–4, 110–111
hydrogen fuel cell, 110–111
hypertext, 583
hysteresis loss, 288–289
I
IC. See integrated circuit.
ideal battery, 104–105
ideal cell, 104–105
IF. See intermediate frequency
illumination meter, 48–49
image
compression, 451
dissector, 512–513
orthicon, 512
resolution, 513, 576, 578
in superheterodyne receiver, 426, 428
transmission, video, 416–418
imaginary number
definition of, 229
line, 229–230
unit, 229
IMD. See intermodulation distortion
IMPATT diode, 331
impedance
absolute value of, 235
characteristic, 236–238, 274–275, 297–299,
484
complex, 229–238, 248, 255–256, 259
matching, 88, 238, 275, 294–299, 474
measurement of, 258
mismatch, 275
nonreactive, 235
purely resistive, 235, 259
step-down transformer, 296
step-up transformer, 296
surge, 236
transfer ratio, 296
vector representation of, 234, 247–248
independent variable, 148
indirectly heated cathode, 505–506
induced current, 286
inductance
definition of, 160–161
mutual, 161–162, 164–166, 168
in parallel, 163–164
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