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Re:I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [... by Jansen312 on Friday December 17, 2021 @08:25PM (#29600526)
Most people didn't have EE education at college level. Transmission line or radio wave carrying energy is a concept usually taught much later in ones schooling. Derek basically want to target mass market that receive basic electrical knowledge that actively tells you electric "only" flows in cable. A lot of people replying to his video subsequently demonstrate that Derek is right that these group of people have the not exactly right idea taught at school. Some people replying wishing to show he is wrong completely missed his message.
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Re:I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [... by kzrdude on Saturday December 18, 2021 @05:35AM (#29603445)
He's just leaving them with a different misconception, now he's told them to ignore the wires completely. I don't think this video helped anyone (for the various reasons stated in this whole topic).
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Re:I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [... by dylan604 on Friday December 17, 2021 @09:39PM (#29601027)
>people have the not exactly right idea taught at school

could it not also be that some of these students didn't actually learn what was being taught, and just squeaked by with minimum grades to not have to take it again?

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Re:I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [... by x0x0 on Friday December 17, 2021 @09:53PM (#29601118)
fwiw, I definitely was given the wires and electrons are like a pipe for water somewhere during schooling, and it was interesting to hear a deeper explanation.
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Re:I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [... by dylan604 on Friday December 17, 2021 @10:11PM (#29601225)
and during this discussion of electrons flowing, did it now also contain discussion on the fields produced around the wire? did I just have an exceptional teacher (I know my high school physics teacher was one of those teachers and am indebted to him), or did I just pay attention?

To the point, during the time that I was learning fields produced around a wire carrying a current, I was also learning recording studio audio and how hums can be created by running cables in parallel and avoided by crossing them perpendicularly. I had a conversation about it with said physics teacher, and he gave a lecture about it the next day. Yeah, one of those teachers that sets one on a positive course.

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Re:I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [... by x0x0 on Saturday December 18, 2021 @02:30AM (#29602546)
fields: it was mentioned there were fields :). Nothing as to why one would care; just that fields existed.

Your teacher sounds awesome.

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