Questions on Radar
- What is the difference between radar
and sonar? Give an example for each.
- What are the purposes of radar, i.e.
what can it do?
- An electromagnetic wave in the VHF
band is 90.1 MHz. What is its wavelength?
- What is the relationship between the
frequency of radar transmission and its antenna size? How does this determine
the usefulness of a given frequency band?
- How are electromagnetic waves generated?
- What is a magnetron? In what way did
its invention improve radars?
- How is a klystron different from a
magnetron?
- What is a CW radar? How is it different
from a pulsed radar, both in operation and in performance?
- What are the typical components of
a radar system?
- What is a OTH radar? How is it different
from other radar systems?
- Explain the Doppler effect and how
it is used in radar systems.
- What is a LIDAR and what are some
(at least two) of its uses?
- What is lunar range finding?
Last Modified
Friday, November 2, 2007
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