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"Electricity goes through the path of least resistance."

StormtroperStormtroper
edited 2014-10-08 02:54:15 in General

Thread Rush!


For the longest time as a kid that phrase made me think electricity only goes through the path of least resistance.


Related: "converting mass to energy", and any common phrase that has to do with entropy.

Comments

  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"

    Something tells me that I don't fully get the point.

  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

    lrdgck wrote:


    Something tells me that I don't fully get the point.


  • DYREDYRE
    edited 2014-10-08 16:49:03

    You often hear that "Electricity goes through the path of least resistance."  In reality, though, electricity travels through all possible paths in a circuit, it's just that more of it will go through the less resistant path.  So, the former statement is confusing and misleading.

  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

    Ah yeah.  Well, that's what I thought the complaint was in the first place, okay.

  • BeeBee

    Wait till you have to calculate current as a function of position inside a solid block of graphite.  THAT'S where shit gets fun.

  • vandrovandro
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.

    Hell no.

  • StormtroperStormtroper

    > electrical engineering


    > not having to study dynamics, thermodynamics or turbomachinery

  • vandrovandro
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.

    I am an electromechanical engineering student thank you very much.

  • StormtroperStormtroper

    > career with "mechanical" in its name


    > not having to study solid mechanics (or turbomachinery).

  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"

    I prefer the spherical cow approach.

  • vandrovandro
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.

    I do study Turbomachinery,

  • StormtroperStormtroper
    Gee, you study most of the same things we do.
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