Here is another, slightly more nerdy visualization — this time showing how harmonics change the shape of a sinusoidal waveform.
We often talk about harmonics in theory, but the concept becomes much easier to understand when you can actually see how different harmonic components distort the waveform.
Add enough of them, with the right amplitudes and phases, and a smooth sine wave can start to look like a square wave, a sawtooth, or many other periodic shapes — all from stacking simple waves on top of each other.
Honestly, I wish a visualization like this had existed when I was at university. It would have made the topic much more intuitive than looking only at formulas and static plots.
Feel free to adjust the sliders and explore how each harmonic changes the waveform: https://lnkd.in/gHdanTcm
More BESS and power systems visualizations are available at: BESS.Engineer
