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If you enjoy this, don't miss the video lecture on World War 2-era mechanical fire control computers by the U.S. Navy. I learned you can do a lot of computations with gears and shafts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwf5mAlI7Ug




Another great older film is "Similarities of Wave Behavior" [1] from Bell Labs. It was aimed at college students, and covers in a very clear way these topics: reflection of waves from free and clamped ends, superposition, standing waves and resonance, energy loss by impedance mismatching, and reduction of energy loss by quarter-wave and tapered-section transformers.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DovunOxlY1k


I always use this video to explain how Time Domain Reflectometry finds a broken cable in a wall. Not everyone is familiar with the idea that a cable going to nowhere can have voltage and current.


Thank you so much for linking to this. I knew about many of the concepts in an abstract sense but this cemented them all together for me in an intuitive way.


This one's good too.

https://youtu.be/2OP0gp9v5XM





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