Volts Amps Watts

A clip for the Acme School of Stuff "Acme Shorts" with David Stringer on the relationship between volts amps and watts.

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[acmeschool]

Thanks! You've supplied the missing link to my understanding. Makes sense.

[dreamknotter]

the..... butter heater?

[AxelTiger]

he reminds me of Bruce Willis for some reason...

[TheSportsbot]

@AxelTiger me too. its his confidence and lower face structure i believe.

[martinaee]

@dreamknotter I know, right? Who the fudge heats their butter IN the fridge? Holy bejezzus...

[dondenter]

Voltage can be thought of as pressure to force electrons ( amps ) through a circuit.

Like the water in a hosepipe that is shut off at the end nozzle. When the tap is turned on at the nozzle the water flows out. This is the same as a flow of electrons pushed out by the pressure ( voltage).

The hose slows down the flow a bit and if very long slows down the flow a lot. It resists the flow of electrons ( current) because it has resistance. More pressure ( voltage) would increase the flow again.

[Madcow800]

@AxelTiger or maybe bruce willis reminds you of him.

[LifesHardLessons]

@coldarc ok well...I didn't get that:-( sorry. a better question would have been in the1800's how did Alessandro Volta measure voltage? I doubt I'd there was a voltmeter? So ho did he measure the force of electrons coursing thru a wire, what method did he use to measure them???

[coldarc]

@PAM2167 if you have a bottle of tomato ketshup on a hight and squeeze the bottle and a small amount of ketshup fall on the floor, the distance it falls is voltage. if you squeeze a large amount of tomato ketshup at the same hight on the floor the amount that falls is ampere. if you combine the hight with the amount you get watts. volt is simply how much differential in electric resistance between two quantities of matter. its like ketshup and hight.

[coldarc]

@IntiqYana it is easy. you just don´t understand electricity. your a child to the most basic concepts of electricity.

there are more complex ways to describe what actually happend but those is even more giberish than what the guy in the video described. i can give you an example, ohm divided with ohm equals watts. a charge differential is volt and is a differential in ohm between elements in quantities and density.