How Right IS Veritasium?! Don't Electrons Push Each Other??
Why Physics Stack Exchange recommends it
Physics Stack Exchange users link it when discussing surface charge distribution in wires and how energy gets from a source to a load, often as a visual aid alongside the Veritasium debate.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2023 to 2023.
What it is
ElectroBOOM's Mehdi Sadaghdar responds to Veritasium's videos on how energy reaches a load in a circuit, asking whether batteries really push charges along wires and whether electrons push each other to carry energy. He walks through surface charge distribution and field behavior in a current-carrying circuit, with references to Veritasium's two videos and his own earlier analysis.
What people said
Recommends Dheeraj Gujrathi · 2023-10 · Physics Stack Exchange · on “What happens to the kinetic energy of an electron in a current?”
@AdityaMukherjee, Though these videos don't talk about ideal wire, this might help you visualize what's happening, [this video] and [LINK] and an extra [LINK]
Cites Cooldude · 2023-01 · Physics Stack Exchange · on “Charge distribution in a current carrying wire”
There is a channel on youtube called Electroboom, who has a video titled How Right IS Veritasium?! Don't Electrons Push Each Other?? [this video] related to the surface charge distribution in a current carrying wire, where he told that the charge charge density near the terminals of the battery or source is greater than the charge density present in the middle of that loop. The part of the video discussing this starts at 12:54 [this video] . So I am here to ask that if the charge density is greater In that region that means the electric field should be present near that region, but it looks it's not.
Cites Voidt · 2023-05 · Physics Stack Exchange · on “Does a lightbulb glow due to the interaction with electromagnetic waves or due to the interaction between its atoms and the moving electrons?”
I think what you changed in step 2 is not exactly right. 2.1: The EM wave travels from the source to the load (the bulb) through the air/medium in a spherical way, and there's an initial current going through the bulb at the moment the first wavefront hits the load (which might not be enough to turn on the bulb). 2.2 :Then the EM wave creates a gradient inside the wire everywhere in the circuit, making an electric INSIDE the wire, current is generated all over the circuit, and current flows. See: [this video]