Source: cirosantilli/electrical-impedance
= Electrical impedance
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<Ciro Santilli> distinctly remembers being taught that at basic <electrical engineering> school during <Ciro Santilli's undergrad studies at the University of São Paulo>.
It really allows you to do <alternating current> calculations much as you'd do DC calculations with resistors, quite poweful. It must have been all the rage in the 1950s.