Veritasium video.

This is a little late of a reply, but the Science Asylum did a video about Poynting Vectors a couple years ago. He just released a new video about capacitors and also mentions Poynting Vectors here. It's a short and simple video https://youtu.be/zYRx6Zub3cA Also, my two cents to make a short story long; Veritasium's video is mostly correct. There is quite a bit more to the whole story that involves how electrons 'share' photons in electric circuits. Also he used imaginary mystery wire with no resistance or capacitance, among other things. So definitely take it with a grain of salt. All anyone who actually works with electrical circuits really could take from the video is that current goes both positive to negative and negative to positive at the same time, which is why conventional and electron flow both work (most of the time).

I just watched the video made by Brian Haidet on his channel called "AlphaPhoenix," it was BRILLIANT! Well worth the ~23 minutes. https://youtu.be/2Vrhk5OjBP8

Bo Holbo Rasmussen

Your animated avatar made me think I've got flies on my monitor! Trying to blow it off until I realise it's scrolling with the text!! :-DDD

Stephen Eyles

Well, you got the jump on ElectroBOOM ....Mehdi's put his penneth into the mix.

Phil in the kitchen

I know exactly how you feel. My dad is an EEngineer that graduated in the early '80s (electricity flows from + to -). I was learning electronics on my own in the 90's (electrons flow from - to +) and he always told me I was doing it wrong. We both had the opposite reference and didn't know why. Figuring that out was such a lightbulb moment.

I liked dave Jones take on it. Watching dave explain it reminded me of a few things i forgot and a number of things i forgot or was never taught properly but then again i'm not a physicist...

Aaron Nadler

I struggled as a youngster when i was confronted with conventional current flow as opposed to pos to negative and even now it bugs me! Even now I struggle with the polarities it's like a kind of electric dyslexia- but it's damned annoying!

Mike Hughes

"Danger, Will Robinson!" (you need to keep me a very long distance away from power tools)

Mark Gray

Mark, I don't have a background in physics, but I bet I could swing your "weird shit-o-meter" a bit. Just show up some night when the booze is flowing, and we have the power tools out. 😎

I get along just fine using the Poynting vector for AC/RF and Newton's cradle for DC... It's just the way my 'Spergy brain works :D

Steve Brace

I didn't notice yesterday's video, otherwise I'd probably have commented. I, like a few of your other Patreons, have a physics background (same as Derek/Veritasium) so tend to work much more in the theoretical. Once you get down to quantum level some very weird and counter-intuitive shit happens (look up neutron stars, for one), Although you're absolutely right that a theory is only a theory until proven wrong, there's an awful lot of laboratory work behind most theories (good theories have to be testable). I'm fortunate in studying astrophysics - we can deal with electromagnetism and the Poynting vector without having to worry about wires! PS - electromagnetism doesn't even come close on the 'weird shit'-o-meter to relativity - non-inertial reference frames, time dilation, and the speed of light in a vacuum being constant everywhere, even if you're moving.

Mark Gray

He has people talking about it!

YouKnowHowYouAre

Ride the wave 🏄

100%👍 strike while the iron is hot.

Steve Ryan

good plan

Yeah get on while it’s still popular

LibC