How Electricity Actually Works

As for going faster than the wind...this is another one that academicians love to state purposely vaguely to make you think they are cleverer than they are.  Your vector downwind can never be faster than the wind.  In fact it must be quite a bit less  than the wind. but if you go at a 45 degree angle to the wind, your forward velocith is 1.414 x your wind vector velocity.  So in a 12 mph wind with a 10mph velocity in the windward direction, your forward velocith with be 14.14 mph.  No there is not special bernouli equation that causes you to go faster than the wind, just like the lighting of the lightbult, even just a little bit, cannot happen faster than the speed of light.   --Jerry

@deludedaudiophile I suggest you step away from the keyboard and go sleep off whatever you're drinking.  You're embarassing yourself.  Like how you messed up your attempted slam of me.

I hadn't seen the physics today article but want to compliment them in saying exactly what I posted above.  perhaps you didn't read what I wrote, or perhaps you don't understand the vector math explanation that i gave.  

But I'll be honest now. Give up on physics and find another job.  You need money to buy audio equipment.

Jerry

As one of the few people here that has the education necessary to understand the video, I still fail to see significant application to audiophile sound. 

I will say that the understanding of basic electricity is surprisingly low on this forum and many members would benefit from a better understanding but this isn't it.

Jerry

@builder3 I'd say that there are a lot of affluent people here...seems there is a low positive correlation between detailed technical knowledge and fiscal success.

@deludedaudiophile Well, I’m a physicist so no, I’m not saying physicists are wrong. I’ll saying that some laypeople trying to understand physics haven’t gotten it yet.

BTW, I do know bernoulli’s equation. It is what makes a plane fly, it isn’t a magic equation that causes a sail to push the winds.

Good luck. Hope you find that physics teaching gig you’re looking for.

Jerry

PS  Here is another physics demonstration you should appreciate, a ramp that shoots a ball higher than the ball was at the start.