Electronics intuition
LiveWaves
Electronics intuition for practicing engineers, grounded in the math. Every circuit runs live in your browser, so every waveform you see comes from a real solve.
How a lesson works
01
Predict
Commit before you see it: place a scope cursor, drag a pole, name a number. A wrong guess is where the learning happens, and we show which term you missed.
02
Play
Four linked views of one circuit: live schematic, scope, s-plane and Bode. Turn a knob or drag a pole and all four move together.
03
Prove
The derivation with live numbers, and every symbol linked to the component it names. The math and the circuit are one object.
The map
1 live · 12 in the lab
T1
Time & energy
01 · LIVE
The RC network →
One pole, four views. Probe loading.
02 · SOON
RL and the inductive kick
Why relays need flyback diodes.
03 · SOON
RLC: damping and Q
Poles leave the real axis.
T2
Frequency domain
04 · SOON
Impedance as geometry
Phasors you can drag.
05 · SOON
Filter families
Butterworth vs Bessel vs Chebyshev, in the time domain.
T3
Feedback
06 · SOON
The op-amp is a pole
GBW, slew and the ideal-model lie.
07 · SOON
Phase margin you can see
Ringing, peaking and the Nyquist point.
T4
Mixed signal
08 · SOON
Sampling and aliasing
Folding, from the spectrum's point of view.
09 · SOON
Driving an ADC
Kickback, settling and the charge bucket.
T5
Digital is analog
10 · SOON
Edges and reflections
When a trace becomes a transmission line.
11 · SOON
Ground bounce
L·di/dt in every package pin.
12 · SOON
Metastability
The flip-flop as a balanced ball.
T6
Power
13 · SOON
The buck converter
Volt-seconds, ripple and the LC corner.