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ElectroBOOM Analyzes Veritasium's Lamp-and-Wire Puzzle

ElectroBOOM · Explainer · YouTube title: How Wrong Is VERITASIUM? A Lamp and Power Line Story
Why it's here

HN commenters recommend it as the more rigorous, polite and complete treatment of the Veritasium puzzle, though one dissents that the original misleads people.

What it covers

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.