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I learned all this at university, over many hours of classes, exams and practice questions.

I'd be interested if people with a science/tech/math background, but no specific training on laplace transforms, managed to understand this video. If they did, it might be a good time to replace all those university classes with this video!



Well I also did Fourier and Laplace at uni, but I'm certain it would have been easier to learn if the current explosion of videos on tech topics had happened before I'd gotten there. That 3D of the sums makes a lot of sense, because you need to motivate taking that integral somehow. In my mind I did that, but it's nice to see the video.

Quite a lot of these topics are the kind of thing where you needed to find the explanation that made sense _for you_, and despite universities having a lot of books chances were there were only a handful on any topic such as this.


I am an autodidact with programming and math with no specific training on Laplace Transforms and as usual with videos of this nature, I do a lot of pausing and rewinding, but I did come out the other side understanding the concepts explained in the video. I have no idea if I could satisfactorily answer test questions about Laplace Transforms, but I feel like I understand the intuitions he was trying to convey.


I'm a practicing physicist and I though this video was perfect. Undergrad classes were roughly a decade ago for me and I never took complex analysis. If I did this in grad school classes I don't remember and it was maybe 1 or 2 homework problems total.

I have a feeling I'll retain the ideas better than I would have with a traditional lecture. There is something about how the visuals are presented and transition into each other that really helps make things intuitive. I don't expect to use this directly anytime soon, but it's nice to keep the concepts in the back pocket.


Will test and report back! I have an academic background but the only thing I remember about Laplace right now is his correction for the speed of sound, way back in high school.


I'm studying pure maths at my second year and while we've seen Fourier series, we haven't seen Fourier or Laplace transforms. I found the video rather easy to follow.




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