How Electricity Works - for visual learners

Brilliant topic and presentation. Thanks for this!

Where were you when I was in highschool 8 years ago?? I had trouble with non-mechanical physics because I couldn’t visualize it 😩😆

As someone with FASD who literally cannot learn any other way than visually you are a life saver!!!

Nice to see video

Thanks!

Easily the best simple animation and explanation for electricity I have seen. I’ll definitely recommend this video to my students.

Visual learners 🤔

Is it better to put the lamp close to half-way from the battery, so close to the transition point? Or does it not matter?

QM version when?

Great channel

Wow! THE SINGLE most helpful video on electricity for dummies I have ever seen!
Thank you! 🙏🤩👍

When are the tumblers with those the 3 phase formulas coming out? 😝 Great video 😊

I really appreciate the effort to create such a great video.
I have one question, that maybe you can shed some light on something that I'm seeing.
I impart a specific resonant frequency onto a electrical circuit, and I measure a 12% reduction in resistance, when measuring with my multimeter in amps.

Can you explain why a lightbulbs resistance will change when I add the resonant frequency?

Wonderful

Hands down the best explanation of how actually electricity works that I come across in the internet, thanks so much

I really enjoyed your video.
Veritasium stated in his video about two years ago that the light turns on due to the electric field effect and not electrons flowing in the filament. It did confuse me at the time.
I think your video is explaining the same effect but I'm not sure.

This is incredibly interesting, would you be able to cover how powerplant's use electric generators and what happens inside of them to create energy?

I've always been a bit confused about whether it flows from positive to negative or vise versa, this is the first time I've completely understood why and how this works like it does. Thanks!

GREAT! Learning thru out the years from you. Thanks..

❤ beautifully explained

And when enough elections are disturbed, Aldebran is destroyed,and there is a disturbance in the force.
QED.

ELEKTONS & ELEKTICITY & ELEKTRONS FOR BEGINNERS.
1. A good conductor of elekticity can be called a metal.
2. A metal is a good conductor of elekticity.
3. A metal has a thin layer of elektons on its outside surface – that is what makes it a metal.
4. Non-metals do not have a layer of elektons on their surfaces.
5. Elektons are photons that hug the surface..........
6. whilst propagating at the speed of light in the medium touching the surface (eg air)(eg plastic insulation).
7. Elektons move in every direction on the surface of a say Cu wire – but (eventually) mainly along.
8. The propagation speed of elektons duznt depend on the kind of metal – all kinds of metals give the same speed.
9. The ruffness of the surface slows the speed of elektons – due to the extra distance up&down over the ruffness.
10. Elektons have a negative charge, equal to the charge attributed to the (silly) standard electron.
11. Elektons go straight ahead – except that their trajekt is affected by other elektons (due to repulsion).
12. Hence, after a while, elektons tend to move mainly along a wire (albeit in both directions).
13. And, elektons follow the surface.
14. If the surface of a wire duz a u-turn (eg at the blunt end of a wire) then elektons do a u-turn at the end (koz the surface duz a u-turn)(ie elektons follow the surface).
15. Elektons form a thin negatively charged outer surface layer due to repulsion from atomic elektrons.
16. Atomic elektrons are photons that orbit (hug) an atomic nucleus.
17. The outer orbital elektrons escape from the nucleus, & form an outer layer of elektons (now hugging the general surface rather than hugging individual nuclei).
18. The elektons are attracted to the positively charged nuclei.
19. Different metals will have a different degree of saturation of elektons.
20. The better conductors will have a denser saturation of elektons.
21. A battery can supply elektons at the positive terminal..........
22. & rob elektons at the negative terminal.
23. The supply etc of elektons can result in what we call voltage, or potential.
24. The supply etc of elektons can result in what we call charge.
25. A dead-end length of wire touching a positive terminal will be saturated with elektons going both ways along the wire (doing u-turns at the dead-end).
26. Elektons do not reflekt off or at a dead-end (they do a u-turn).
27. When the flow of elektons going each way is equal then their magnetic fields cancel..........
28. & hence their nett magnetic field is zero (in the far field)...........
29. & there is no heat loss in the wire.
30. A dead-end length of wire touching a negative terminal will be saturated with elektons going both ways along the wire (doing u-turns at the dead-end).
31. The numbers of elektons going up & down a dead-end wire will depend on the degree of saturation.
32a. The degree of saturation will (probly) depend on the surface area available etc...........
32b. & (probly) whether the wire has a coating of insulation.33. This saturation creates what we call resistance..........
34. or, if u like, this resistance creates saturation (many processes are chicken'&'egg).
35. Once u have learnt the above rules then u will understand that if u somehow discharge/short/earth a length (L) of wire (or a capacitor)(in fact a wire is a capacitor), then u can expect that the primary discharge will take a duration of 2L/c seconds (ie it wont take the silly standard skoolkid answer of L/c seconds).
36. And the discharge voltage will be V/2 (ie it wont be the more obvious V/1).
37. And if that there wire is insulated then the duration will take say 3L/c seconds (as per (6) & (32b)).
Enuff for today.

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What a great video, with good explanations on concepts that many other electricity intro videos don't even mention. Bravo!

Where are all my ADHD and dyslexia people at!

What is lightning?

My shorts addicted zoomer brain managed to sit down and watch a whole 18min video

No such thing as "visual learners". Everyone learns visually, it's one of our greatest senses. Also, the idea of learning types has been long debunked, so...

So electrons go back into the battery?

Cool

This reminds me of a class in amazingly elementary school. The teacher said, "Look outside and then show us a film of a tornado he said that there was the same amount of energy outside as their was in the film he just showed us the difference was the air outside was move randomly and the air in the film was moving in a concentrated centralfuge force, changed my whole idea about energy as I walk home

A noob question: If electrons move through the wire from the battery, the battery must be providing the wire with new electrons. Does this process cause the battery to lose mass? If electrons do not have volume, what exactly do we "lose" for creating electricity in the power plants? My brain hurts

For those of you confused about “voltage drop”, it’s also called “potential difference” and it’s always between two points. That’s why there’s little “voltage” along a copper wire: little resistance means little difference in potential. I’m still a noob so hopefully that’s right, but knowledgable people have said that “voltage” is not a good way to think of it because it’s not some kind of quantity, it’s a comparison.

Wondering what the results would be if i built a device to magnifying the principles that create that reflection wave, and probably lean how to eliminate it in the process

This is a really great explanation and I think a lot of people would have more interest in physics if they had teachers like you. I'm 46 right now but when I was 30 I wanted to finish my degree in engineering. In high school I flunked trigonometry, but in college I got an A in trigonometry because I had a good teacher and good resources. Unfortunately I was not able to finish because the people who give Pell grants, gave money so that I could get my associates in engineering and then move on. However the school said that I went over by 2 hours and instead of getting back a refund because I didn't buy any books and found all the books second hand or online, they told me I owed them $1,500. It's really too bad since I had good grades and an interest in the subject. It's sad how difficult getting an education in the United States seems to be. I salute you for helping young people to understand these things. It is a noble endeavor.

So I keep seeing modern videos talking about how it's the feild and not the charges in the wires, but what if you insulated all the wires in a frozen superconductor that Completley nullified those initial charge waves as you turned on the switch? Would the lap still turn on? Why do wires matter at all? I just dont get field theory fully.

So if all the energy in the top half of the battery cell eventually migrates to the bottom half of the battery cell, presumably this is when it becomes a "dead" battery. So why can't we turn it round. (i.e. so the bottom becomes the top), then all that energy would still be available, no? I don't understand. Please can you explain?

FFS - far too much to take in at one time!

I've never seen electricity, so I don't pay for it. I write right on the bill, "I'm sorry, I haven't seen it all month."
- Steven Wright

This is a very good video! Thank you.

I'm paying to Electricity station for moving electrons which are already present in wire.😮