INDEX 



environmental factors, {Cont.) 

 design and, 680-682 



equipment, airborne radar, 34-35 



error, ground mapping and, 776; meas- 

 urement of, 39-40 



error signal, angle tracking and, 480- 

 482; noise and, 265; tracking problem 

 and, 473 



error specification, in fire-control sys- 

 tem, 124-129 



error voltage, 204 



explosion, mechanical design and, 710 



eye, characteristics of, 635-644 



fading, in automatic tracking, 476-477 

 failure, reliability measurements and, 



717-720 

 false-alarm number, 145 

 false-alarm probability, 144, 148-150; 



noise and, 279-280 

 false-alarm rate, 318 

 fan-beam antenna, 524-528 

 fan-beam radar, 71, 95-96, 773; ground 



mapping and, 779-780 

 fan beamwidth, see beamwidth 

 Faraday effect, 558-559 

 Faraday rotator gyrator, 559-561 

 fatigue failures, vibration and, 700 

 Federal Communications Commission, 



26 

 feedback, 34, 350; antenna loop and, 



450; in automatic gain control, 417- 



420; circuit stability of, 309; in IF 



amplifiers, 366; in IF preamplifiers, 



371; local oscillator characteristics 



and, 413 

 feed through, 318 

 Fellars, R. G., 544 n. 

 Ferret application, radiation detection, 



13 

 ferrite circulators, 331 

 ferrite devices, 557-566 

 ferrite isolator, 563-565 

 ferrite phase shifters, 562-563 

 ferrite switches, 331, 561-562 

 ferroelectric capacitors, 669-670 

 fieldofview, 786, 788 

 fighter-bomber fire-control problem, 9 

 fighter vectoring guidance, 72-73 

 film resolution, 786-787 

 filter amplifier, 362 

 filter-bank detector, 312 



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filtering techniques, 167-168, 297-300, 

 375-376 



fire-control problem, 8 ~ 



fire-control system, 104; antenna and, 

 461, 512-515; error specification in, 

 123-129; height-finding and, 94; pa- 

 rameters of, 120-123 



Fitts, P. M., 649 n. 



flat random motion spectrum, 697 



Fleet Center, 15 



flexibility, mechanical design and, 715 



fluctuating target, detection of, 151-156 



fluctuation error, 729 



fluorescent screens, cathode ray tube, 

 625-626 



flyability error, 125 



FM/CW systems, 311-320; in doppler 

 navigation systems, 737-738, 752-754; 

 see also continuous wave systems; 

 frequency modulation 



"FM-ing," 295; frequency of, 313 



folded-tie hybrids, 549 



folding efl^ect, 323-324, 327 



foldover, in doppler navigation system, 

 750 



foot lambert, 630, 635, 656 



forced vibration, 695 



force transmissibility, 698 



forward-looking mapping radar, 9, 773 



Fourier analysis, 238-242, 434 



Fourier integral, 244 



Fourier series, 18 n., 24, 239 



Fourier transform, 244, 249-250, 255, 

 273 n. 



Fourier transform pair, 239, 241 



fovea, 636-638 



Fox, A. G., 555 n., 562 n. 



Freedman, J., 168 n., 784 



Freeman, J. J., 198 



frequencies, sampling, 295-297 



frequencv, doppler, see doppler fre- 

 quency; mapping and, 10; operating 

 range of, 26-27; radar, 174; weather 

 mapping, IGG-lGl 



frequency control, see automatic fre- 

 quency control 



frequency deviations, 432-433 



frequency discriminator, 415, 742 



frequency domain, transformation to, 

 502-503 



frequency modulation, 18-20; in CW 

 systems, 313-315; see also FM/CW 



