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What is electricity exactly and how is it caused? I hear multiple things like it’s the movement of electrons, but that doesn’t make sense to me cause electrons are always moving. Isn’t it wave energy that travels by means of electrons?
I also don’t understand Voltage visually. I understand it’s the amount of joules in a Coulomb, but what would the difference be on a small level? What would be the difference physically and visually at 1volt to 1000volts on the atomic level?
In: Physics
Electricity is little blue men. Amazing! Little blue men that live in the wires. The little blue men like to party. It turns out that there are amazing, wonderful parties in batteries, in the negative side. So, the little blue men have to drive to get to the party. That’s direct current.
Sometimes the men don’t want to drive. They want to party where they are, and do the hokey-pokey! One step forward, one step back, over and over. A party all along the wire, back and forth. That’s alternating current.
And so on. You should read “There are no electrons”, easily the best book on electricity and basic electronics ever written. They use the metaphor of little blue men to explain everything.
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