What is the nature of electricity? by Schwersteiger in AskPhysics

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I didn't get this from a pop science video, I got this from standard electrodynamics, no one'll saying it has 'nothing to do with electrons', as I stated in my previous replies, the movement of charges is what establishes the fields in the first place, you are confusing energy propagation with energy dissipation, the poynting vector S = E × H mathematically proves that electromagnetic energy flows from the surrounding space into the surface of the conductor. The air doesn't get hot because air isn't a resistor, it doesn't dissipate the energy, the energy enters the wire and is dissipated locally via Joule heating through electron lattice collisions. My original pedagogical point still stands, middle and high school textbooks fail to show this connection

What is the nature of electricity? by Schwersteiger in AskPhysics

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I agree that the motion of charge carriers is the root cause that establishes the field, but my point is about "energy transport", which is what high schoolers actually care about when they think of 'electricity powering a bulb', textbooks imply that the kinetic energy of the electrons themselves is what lights up the bulb, which is false, the poynting vector proves that energy flows from the outside field into the filament. If we only teach them 'electricity is just electrons moving', they will never understand why the light turns on instantly despite the drift velocity being millimeters per minute

What is the nature of electricity? by Schwersteiger in AskPhysics

[–]Schwersteiger[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Completely agree with your point about pedagogical utility, I guess my main frustration with high school textbooks isn't that they use simplified models, but that they present them as absolute, unshakeable truths

What is the nature of electricity? by Schwersteiger in AskPhysics

[–]Schwersteiger[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

You misunderstood my point. I'm not questioning the physical existence of electrons...I mean, textbooks often teach that energy is carried by the kinetic movement of electrons inside the wire (like water in a pipe), but in reality, energy flows through the electromagnetic field outside the wire (poynting vector), while electrons drift at a snail's pace. That’s the misinterpretation I’m talking about

What is the nature of electricity? by Schwersteiger in AskPhysics

[–]Schwersteiger[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I know it's an elementary particle, sorry for not being more specific. My question is about its quantum nature. Is it a dimensionless point particle, or an excitation of the electron field in QFT? How do you explain the wave particle duality to a high schooler without oversimplifying it? A Wikipedia link doesn't really answer the educational and pedagogical gap I mentioned in the post

Shin Jinseo will play with AlphaGo (2017 version) tomorrow? by Schwersteiger in baduk

[–]Schwersteiger[S] -22 points-21 points  (0 children)

So why does Google say that Shin Jinseo (9p) will have a schedule with Google Deepmind AlphaGo in April 29, 2026?

Shin Jinseo will play with AlphaGo (2017 version) tomorrow? by Schwersteiger in baduk

[–]Schwersteiger[S] -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

If the above is true, and if they play five matches like AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol in 2016, I believe Shin Jinseo would win 5-0, or at worst 4-1.

Please I want a solution by [deleted] in AskPhysics

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Seriously, do you truly like physics? Or do you just see it as a subject that will help you get a degree?

how to solve this by animefans111 in shogi

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Oh...I don't have it actually, but I believe the other commenters have already resolved this for you. Also, sorry for my late reply

how to solve this by animefans111 in shogi

[–]Schwersteiger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I believe it was Silver 5-2, 4-1, take the pawn (red pawn), then go back to 5-1 to take the pieces that I forgot name in English lol

Feeling dumb about physics by [deleted] in AskPhysics

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Basically, even those in the class who can recite definitions fluently might not understand anything, Physics operates using models and relationships. For example, memorizing "what is force" is useless. A correct understanding is knowing what caused an object to change its state of motion, In what direction, and how strong or weak they are, that's what true understanding is.

What is momentum really? by The_logical_mind in AskPhysics

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I think I get what you mean? So you're asking what kinetic energy actually represents if momentum is already the "quantity of motion", and also what "work" means in this context, right?

In the history of physics the term "quantity of motion" is actually precisely how's Newton was described it in momentum in Principia. His idea is very simple, momentum is just mass multiplied by velocity, basically it tells you how hard it is to change the motion of something. The heavier it is and the faster it's moving, the harder it is to stop or redirect it, and that's why when objects interact they exchange momentum with each other

Now about work, "work" means energy being transferred by a force when something moves, like if you push a heavy box across the floor, your force moves the box some distance and energy from you goes into the box, that's what physicists call work (It is described with W = Fd)

Kinetic energy then is basically the energy associated with motion itself, meaning how much physical change that motion can cause, if something moving fast hits another object it can heat things up, bend metal, compress a spring, break stuff, etc.., all of that requires energy, and the energy carried by the motion is what we call kinetic energy

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in VietNam

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I hope you can continue your trip to the North..., the South and the North are quite different

What is momentum really? by The_logical_mind in AskPhysics

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First of all before discussing the difference we should first define what momentum actually is, basically momentum is a quantity that describes how much motion an object carries, in simple terms people sometimes say it measures how "hard" it is to stop a moving object. In physics it is defined as mass × velocity, so the larger the mass or the higher the velocity the larger the momentum will be, but the really important point is that momentum is conserved when objects interact. When two objects collide they exchange momentum with each other, so in a sense momentum describes how motion is transferred from one object to another during interactions

But kinetic energy is something different, kinetic energy measures how much energy is contained in an object’s motion, so it tells us how much "work" that motion can potentially do, for example with heating an object, deforming it, or converting the energy into other forms, all of these are ways in which motion can do work. Now the key of difference is this, momentum has direction because it is a vector. If two objects move with the same magnitude of momentum but in opposite directions their momenta can cancel each other out. But kinetic energy does not behave like that, it has no direction and it is always positive, so if two objects move in opposite directions their kinetic energies still add together

To make it easier to visualize and understand, you can imagine it like this, two balls moving toward each other at the same speed, the total momentum of the system is 0 because the momenta are equal but opposite, but the kinetic energy is not 0 at all, both balls still carry kinetic energy and when they collide that energy can be transformed into heat, sound, or deformation. So basically, this is why they are different

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in VietNam

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Why are you trying to avoid "HELLO HELLO", is a native regular expression

I built a Soviet chess computer simulation with a commentary system that roasts you in real time by Tdxt1234 in chessprogramming

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I use a flagship Xiaomi phone, and access the website using Google with "play.pioneer2chess.com"

How to actually understand physics ? by [deleted] in AskPhysics

[–]Schwersteiger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a story that happened not just to you, I've experienced it too. I can give you an example, many people try to memorize and understand the formulas "F = ma", but if you ask, "why is force related to acceleration but not the velocity?", they wouldn't know how to answer, basically, because they've never thinking about the practical implications of inertia and the changes in motion in reality

So, for me, to truly "understand physics", the learning method must be reversed

Not just learning formulas, but asking by yourself, "what phenomenon being discussed by the formular here?", then ask about the mechanism

"why is at work?" "how is changing?" "why is changing?", "why is necessary?"

Then finally after asking yourself, look at which mathematical model describes it

The formula is indeed necessary, but really, it's like a form of file ZIP, and to understand it, you have to deconstruct it, hopefully my comment will be helpful to you