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.
Topic
electromagnetism
14 videos. Ranked by independent recommendations, not by views.
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 Circuit Energy doesn't FLOW the way you THINK!
Shared in debates about how energy actually travels in a circuit, giving a field based picture that complements the Veritasium discussion.
5 Does Kirchhoff's Law Hold? Disagreeing with a Master
Mehdi Sadaghdar challenges Walter Lewin's conclusion that Kirchhoff's voltage law fails in a changing magnetic field, using a modified experiment; central to a long-running debate.
6 How Wrong Is VERITASIUM? A Lamp and Power Line Story
ElectroBOOM's reply to the Veritasium electricity video, widely offered as the clearer and more entertaining account of how energy actually travels along wires.
7 Electromagnetism - Maxwell's Laws
A long lecture on Maxwell's equations, praised for making magnetic fields understandable, though it leans towards physics rather than practice.
8 DC MOTORS AND GENERATORS
A US Department of Defense training film on DC motors and generators, praised for building intuition better than most lectures.
Hidden gem9 8.02x - MIT Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism
Walter Lewin's university physics lectures, widely praised for building intuition about electricity and magnetism through demonstrations in every class.
Hidden gem10 How does an Antenna work? | ICT #4
Animated explanation of how an antenna radiates, contrasting field lines that collapse around a coil with ones that detach; praised for intuition, though it prompts questions about rigour.
11 Professor Eric Laithwaite: Magnetic River 1975
A demonstration of alternating magnetic fields, including levitating conductive rings and a travelling wave, referenced when people ask about induction and levitation.
12 Divergence and curl: The language of Maxwell's equations, fluid flow, and more
A 3Blue1Brown visual explanation of divergence and curl in the context of Maxwell's equations, praised for making the maths behind electromagnetism intuitive.
13 MAGNETS: How Do They Work?
MinutePhysics' short take on permanent magnets and the relativity underlying electromagnetism, recommended alongside the companion Veritasium video for the deeper why.
14 What does "impedance matching" actually look like? (electricity waves)
An AlphaPhoenix experiment measuring how current actually travels along a wire, offered as an intuitive route into transmission lines and impedance matching.
