I read this here in relation to Ohm's law just a bit ago in the textbook section:
"Free electrons tend to move through conductors with some degree of friction, or opposition to motion. This opposition to motion is more properly called resistance. The amount of current in a circuit depends on the amount of voltage available to motivate the electrons, and also the amount of resistance in the circuit to oppose electron flow. Just like voltage, resistance is a quantity relative between two points. For this reason, the quantities of voltage and resistance are often stated as being "between" or "across" two points in a circuit."
Now I'm trying to understand all of this so guess what I did? I used personification in an attempt to understand as I imagined myself to be a 'free' electron. Being an America it was easy for me to understand freedom so here I am moving around in an atom around a nucleus (or America if you will) with the freedoms given and am content and am also kinetic by the way meaning I produce energy and move. So somebody named voltage comes along with little more than potential to move me where I do not wish to go outside of my chosen comfort zone. Thus I of course resist! Yet, this voltage person wishes to force me against my will to move where I do not wish to go, therefore my resistance comes into play BIG TIME! But what if voltage decided to make friends with me and I agreed to go wherever voltage went because I liked him or her and was willing to follow? Wherein would the resistance lie then? I would not, in that instance, resist at all! So, what are we missing here? There is a way to live together and mutually benefit which (as it seems to me) has yet to be discovered and if the outside world apart from electronics is any indication we can't even accomplish the simple feat of living together and yet we have constitutions and laws out here considered axioms and even more laws and studies and journals I always hear about in the electronic world which may be erroneous because there was a time when the axiom stated that the world was flat. It has since, of course, been proven faulty but you might have been burned at the stake if you boldly proclaimed otherwise. Maybe I don't know what the heck I'm talking about but when I personify things it helps me understand that we don't really know much at all as a race despite the great strides we've made throughout history and yet point at textbooks as if they were some sort of undisputed factual brick walls through which one cannot breach. I have a problem with that line of thinking and I know there has to be more than what we have or claim to know now. Am I the only one who thinks and feels and questions like this?
"Free electrons tend to move through conductors with some degree of friction, or opposition to motion. This opposition to motion is more properly called resistance. The amount of current in a circuit depends on the amount of voltage available to motivate the electrons, and also the amount of resistance in the circuit to oppose electron flow. Just like voltage, resistance is a quantity relative between two points. For this reason, the quantities of voltage and resistance are often stated as being "between" or "across" two points in a circuit."
Now I'm trying to understand all of this so guess what I did? I used personification in an attempt to understand as I imagined myself to be a 'free' electron. Being an America it was easy for me to understand freedom so here I am moving around in an atom around a nucleus (or America if you will) with the freedoms given and am content and am also kinetic by the way meaning I produce energy and move. So somebody named voltage comes along with little more than potential to move me where I do not wish to go outside of my chosen comfort zone. Thus I of course resist! Yet, this voltage person wishes to force me against my will to move where I do not wish to go, therefore my resistance comes into play BIG TIME! But what if voltage decided to make friends with me and I agreed to go wherever voltage went because I liked him or her and was willing to follow? Wherein would the resistance lie then? I would not, in that instance, resist at all! So, what are we missing here? There is a way to live together and mutually benefit which (as it seems to me) has yet to be discovered and if the outside world apart from electronics is any indication we can't even accomplish the simple feat of living together and yet we have constitutions and laws out here considered axioms and even more laws and studies and journals I always hear about in the electronic world which may be erroneous because there was a time when the axiom stated that the world was flat. It has since, of course, been proven faulty but you might have been burned at the stake if you boldly proclaimed otherwise. Maybe I don't know what the heck I'm talking about but when I personify things it helps me understand that we don't really know much at all as a race despite the great strides we've made throughout history and yet point at textbooks as if they were some sort of undisputed factual brick walls through which one cannot breach. I have a problem with that line of thinking and I know there has to be more than what we have or claim to know now. Am I the only one who thinks and feels and questions like this?
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