Watch electricity hit a fork in the road at half a billion frames per second
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Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via HackerTube (Karpathy's dataset of videos Hacker News recommends · 88% confidenceTurns transmission-line theory into something you can see, with a custom-built measurement setup.
Ultra-high-speed footage of an electrical pulse reaching a branch in a wire, showing reflections and impedance in action.
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