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0:00 The Scariest Chart In Engineering
3:24 Standing Waves And Reflections
7:24 Why does a wave bounce back?
10:15 How to stop a wave from bouncing back
17:06 The Smith Chart
25:53 How To Read The Smith Chart
30:42 This Circuit Gets Better When You Break It
35:22 Why were we slow to use it?
37:06 Is it still useful?
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A big shout out to Imperial College London for letting us use their screened RF anechoic chamber. In particular, a massive thanks to Prof. Stepan Lucyszyn and Ian Rossuck for helping us set up the demos seen in this video.
Also special thanks to Zach Star, Dr. Cynthia Furse, Dr James Nagel, and Ralph Gable for their invaluable expertise!
Check out @zachstar 's video on the Smith Chart here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXWbdxOAuDs
Check out @3blue1brown 's video to learn more about transformations and conformal maps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldxFjLJ3rVY
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References: https://ve42.co/SmithChartsRefs
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