How to teach current in a wire (or how not to)

Alex Roberts
Sep 1, 2018 · 4 min read

If you’re going to teach how a basic circuit works, please never again give the analogy of water flowing through a pipe. Making that analogy is like saying that when it thunders outside and the sound travels through the air creating a wind of sorts in the form of sound waves therefore the thunder is like the blowing of a breeze. In the case of electricity, you literally take the most amazing human invention…

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PhD from UC Berkeley and Certificate in Business from the UC Berkeley Ext.

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