[00:00] This is the scariest chart in electrical engineering. Puts the fear of God into all undergraduate students. First time that you ever laid eyes on this chart. What was your first impression? Holy s***. It's like terrifying. It looks almost like a wormhole in some sci-fi movie.
[00:15] I mean, on many versions, it literally says black magic. But for all the fear, it's everywhere. Millions of copies have been printed, and it's built into the most advanced software we have today.
[00:27] That's because this chart solves one of the most paradoxical problems in electrical engineering. So we put it to the test. This is crazy. We're getting way more power transfer, even though we've cut the line. How does that make any sense?
[00:40] There have been some great YouTube videos explaining how to use it, like one from my friend Zach Starr, but I always felt like they were missing something essential. You also, do you want to know why this chart looks the way it does? Yes, but then I need to know the physics.
[00:53] I would want to know what the circles are and what I'm looking at at first. Because even once you know how to use this chart, you're still left wondering how it pulls off its strangest bit of witchcraft, trapping infinity inside a finite circle.
[01:07] Well, to understand that, we have to go back a hundred years to the origins of this chart.