Timeline for How do charges lose electrical potential energy when going through a resistor?
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| Oct 20, 2018 at 12:16 | comment | added | BioPhysicist | Yes I agree. A resistor is like a magical forest where the density of trees determines the slope of the landscape. | |
| Oct 20, 2018 at 12:05 | comment | added | Farcher | @AaronStevens The resistor is the hill and the saplings. For no resistance there is a smooth level ground and no saplings with the boulder rolling along at constant speed? Negligible resistance might be a very, very slight incline with very, very, few saplings? | |
| Oct 20, 2018 at 11:47 | comment | added | BioPhysicist | Doesn't this analogy break down for wires with negligable resistance? Or are you saying that the resistance is the combination of the "hill" along with the "saplings"? | |
| Oct 20, 2018 at 11:37 | history | answered | Farcher | CC BY-SA 4.0 |