1 The Biggest Misconception About Electricity
Veritasium's thought experiment on how quickly energy reaches a bulb in a very long circuit; widely discussed and disputed, often alongside the EEVblog and ElectroBOOM responses.
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2 How Electricity Actually Works
Veritasium's follow-up on how energy travels around a circuit; the community is split, with some finding it enlightening and others still unconvinced by its claims.
3 How Special Relativity Makes Magnets Work
Veritasium explains why magnetism falls out of special relativity, linked when people ask what magnetic fields really are.
4 How Does a Transistor Work?
A short, slightly silly explanation of how transistors work at the semiconductor level, often linked for anyone who has not yet grasped the basics.
5 Future Computers Will Be Radically Different (Analog Computing)
Veritasium's look at the return of analogue computing, including a commercial chip that does heavy calculations in analogue for far less power, praised for its extensive source list.
6 The Surprising Secret of Synchronization
General science video on how coupled oscillators such as metronomes fall into step; cited as background when people ask whether crystal oscillators or blinking LEDs synchronise.
