Tuesday Physics Tattoo – Smith Chart

From Chris S’s website at UCSB

The SMITH chart is a graphical calculator that allows the relatively complicated mathematical calculations, which use complex algebra and numbers, to be replaced with geometrical constructs, and it allows us to see at a glance what the effects of altering the transmission line geometry will be.

Here is what a real Smith Chart looks like.

Source Chris’s UCSB website

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