Understanding Oscilloscopes – Lissajous Patterns

This video provides a technical introduction to the creation, interpretation, and use of Lissajous patterns.

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Timeline:
00:00 Introduction
00:15 Suggested viewing
00:33 About Lissajous patterns
01:27 About XY mode
02:08 What determines the shape of a Lissajous pattern?
02:24 Signals identical in amplitude, phase, and frequency
02:59 Same phase and frequency, but different amplitudes
03:46 Phase difference
04:15 Phase difference examples
04:49 Frequency ratio
05:24 Frequency ratio examples
06:00 Applications of Lissajous patterns
06:14 About phase measurements
07:05 About frequency measurements
07:53 Detecting non-integer frequency ratios
08:36 About distortion/clipping
09:12 Summary