Response To Veritasium - Electricity Propagation Time Problem
This is a (long unedited) video showing my explanation of the problem posed in Veritasium’s latest community post (linked below). I back up my answer with simulations done in Ansys HFSS.
00:00 - Problem Statement
00:50 - Analysis
04:30 - Simulation Setup
06:04 - Simulation Results
Let me know if you have any questions or think that I made an error somewhere!
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