The scariest thing you learn in Electrical Engineering | The Smith Chart

I'm an accountant. I feel like I walked into the wrong classroom but stuck around because the teacher was so good. I actually understood this very well; thank you.

As an RF test engineer, I have to say this was beautifully done! I used to struggle with smith charts in college, wish I was able to see this then!

Educating is like comedy. It is all in the preparation and delivery that provides for the audience either “getting it” or not and this was exceptionally presented in an all relatable fashion that did not require people knowing “inside information”. Nice work.

I am an electronic engineer who studied in the best engineering school in my country. I've never had an explanation so good in my transmissions line course while in college. Simply amazing!

ok but as an EE student when you DO use the smith chart and it works, you feel like a wizard and you save a lot of time

My father was an electrical engineer and he explained the Smith Chart to me when I was still in grade school. I sort of remembered it but you really brought my memory back on it. Thanks. That made me feel all warm and fuzzy. :)

I’m an audio engineer, and I studied a lot of electrical/electronic engineering beyond my course work. This involved understanding the intricacies of amplification in venues of all sizes. This popped up in my exploration, and I didn’t find it scary at all—just as now, I thought it was one of the most brilliant graphical representation of a complex problem I’ve ever seen. I’d forgotten about it over the years, but seeing it again just made me smile. It’s absolutely astonishing how elegant our universe is.

I am an electrical engineering phd candidate and I have to say that this is a phenomenally explained video! Your use of animations were amazing!

This is a way better explanation than I ever got in my electromagnetism class

As a mechanical Engineer, EE stuff usually makes me want to run and hide, but this was fantastically explained and I feel like I learned something today!

I'm not a radio engineer, I will probably never need this in my entire life, but thank you, it is very helpful

The Smith chart always felt like one of the most "mystical" cult-cargo-y things in my EE curriculum. This video explained it very well! would love a follow-up video describing how the chart is derived from first principles!

I am an engineer with 15yrs experience and I still learnt a lot about impedance matching. This is the best explanation of it I have seen

This is one of those things that you hate with all you got until you magically understand it and it feels like dark magic. I vividly remember going through an entire transmission lines/antenna course without understanding anything at all. Then one day something snapped in my head and felt like the easiest thing ever. Once again, thanks youtube for bringing back some good memories!

I am a student of English Literature Undergraduate, this does not relate to any of my subjects but I watch it anyway because how straightforward you are at presenting the topic

I'm currently finishing my PhD in mechanical engineering, and it's really fascinating the analogous behaviours you can see between different multiphysics domains, like resistance, capacitance and inductance producing similar dynamic effects as dampers, springs, and inertias. I used to work at a consulting company where among others things, we did fluid and pulsation analysis through compressor units. In the 1970s, before computers were powerful enough to do this kind of thing (so way before my time), the engineers would actually simulate the compressor system by building a little electrical circuit with R, C, and L components to represent the mechanical and fluid flow components, and then just let the circuit run. Way easier than building a mini-compressor on your desk!

It’s been so many years listening to “matching the impedance” in audio cables and inputs, but not understanding why… now this blew up my mind, thank you so much

I’m an echocardiographer. Believe it or not we have to take physics classes and pass a physics registry/licensing board before we can even sit for our echo registry. We learned a lot about wave physics, fluid dynamics, types of doppler, impedance, attenuation, etc etc. It’s really amazing how much of that stuff is relevant to this. So much of what we learned about sound waves applies to light just the same. Really cool.

This brings back memories of my 45 years in aerospace engineering. I worked on radars and telemetry systems at the big aerospace companies in the LA area like Hughes & Raytheon. It was a lot of fun.

a first year electrical and electronics engineering undergrad here. The analogy of rope used here really gave a clear insight on how signal actually travels are reflects back. keep it up !