Hi, I've been playing with electronics for about 25 years but am starting to challenge myself now. I'm also back in school studying engineering so I'm hoping to be able to start connecting theory with practice. I'm working on a project right now and am trying to get an intuitive understanding of how impedance matching works, all of the formulas I see aren't helping much, I understand reactance and impedance intuitively, but still can't wrap my head around something like a PI network. Is there a text that's recommended? I think part of the biggest hurdle I'm having is that the network treats the load impedance as a real quantity, as far as I can tell, it's ignoring the imaginary part of the load, which I imagine, would have a big effect on matching? Just missing the intuition, I feel like if I understood what's going on, the math would all make sense.
