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Three trades argue over electricity
What electricity actually is
4 IN THE ROOMPLPlumberELElectricianPTPhysics teacherAPApprentice
PL
Plumber
It is water in a pipe. Voltage is pressure, current is flow, resistance is a narrow bit. I have explained Ohm's law to apprentices with a hose and never once been wrong.
EL
Electrician
The hose breaks the moment you ask where the electrons go. Nothing comes out the end. The circuit is a loop, the energy moves in the field around the wire, and the electrons barely move at all.
PT
Physics teacher
You are both right for about twenty minutes each. The water model gets a reader through series and parallel; then it has to die, because the field is what carries the energy and the hose has no field.
AP
Apprentice
Can we agree on the hose until I pass the exam, and the field after? I would like to be wrong in the right order.
Where they landed
The water analogy teaches circuits and then has to be unlearned; the energy travels in the field, not inside the wire.
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