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Re:Two capacitor paradox by sillysaurusx on Monday May 25, 2020 @09:42PM (#23306671)
What would be a better visualization?
Re:Two capacitor paradox by stephen_g on Saturday May 30, 2020 @02:06AM (#23358905)
What I’m saying is that it’s best to get to the point where you can reason more directly about voltage, current, charge, inductance etc.

Part of that is getting comfortable with the maths, and the way that’s visualised is just equations, graphs and sometimes things like diagrams of fields or heatmaps. I work in RF so we do antenna simulations and things like that, and the software generates radiation pattern diagrams in 2D, or in 3D heatmaps showing the energy density. It just doesn’t work to, say, try and think of what would happen if an antenna was spraying water out or something.