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How Wrong Is VERITASIUM? A Lamp and Power Line Story

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Electronics & circuit designFundamental physics

What it is

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 Hacker News recommends 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.

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “Let me highly recommend Mehdi Sadaghdar’s (ElectroBOOM) excellent response video”

    Polite, empirical, entertaining response explaining the subtleties of the lamp puzzle.

    jacobolus, 2021-12 · Strong recommendation · in “I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [video]”

  2. “which I think ElectroBoom's response* addresses nicely”

    Corrects mistakes in the Veritasium video.

    afiori, 2021-12 · Recommendation · in “I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [video]”

  3. “You should watch Electroboom's analysis if you want the full details from an electrical engineer”

    Full details from an electrical engineer.

    naasking, 2021-12 · Recommendation · in “I bought 1000 meters of wire to settle a physics debate [video]”

  4. “ElectroBOOM has a good response”

    Clearer response after the confusing Veritasium video.

    haxiomic, 2021-12 · Recommendation · in “Electricity Is Magnetism”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: electroboom, veritasium, transmission lines, stray capacitance, electromagnetism

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