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How Wrong Is VERITASIUM? A Lamp and Power Line Story
ElectroBOOM's Mehdi Sadaghdar responds to Veritasium's lamp-and-long-wire puzzle, analysing it as an electrical engineer. He covers where the original framing misleads and the role of stray capacitance.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters recommend it as the more rigorous, polite and complete treatment of the Veritasium puzzle, though one dissents that the original misleads people.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- ElectroBOOM
- Topic
- circuit theory
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 10
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Controversial is fine to the extent the controversy shows people struggling toward clearer understanding and better explanations, and as long as all parties are operating in good faith (i.e. not being deliberately misleading). Let me highly recommend Mehdi Sadaghdar’s (ElectroBOOM) excellent response video [VIDEO] which …
jacobolus on Hacker News · 2021-12
In I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [video]In my opinion the video made a couple of mistakes, which I think ElectroBoom's response* addresses nicely. Also its proof using the pointing vector to show the flow of energy is misleading; In the video Derek shows that the energy flows toward the lamp when …
afiori on Hacker News · 2021-12
In I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [video]You should watch Electroboom's analysis if you want the full details from an electrical engineer: [VIDEO]
naasking on Hacker News · 2021-12
In I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [video]
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