I think Bill Beaty’s page on electricity might be what you’re looking for. Here’s a joking teaser which shows the kinds of questions he’s trying to answer:
Electricity is quite simple: “electricity” is just the flowing motion of electricity! Electricity is a mysterious incomprehensible entity which is invisible and visible, both at the same time. Also, electricity is both a form of energy and a type of matter. Both. Electricity is a kind of low-frequency radio wave which is made of protons. It’s a mysterious force which cannot be seen, and yet it looks like blue-white fire that arcs across the clouds. It moves forward at the speed of light… yet it sits and vibrates inside your AC cord without flowing forwards at all. It’s totally weightless, yet it has a small weight. When electricity flows through a light bulb’s filament, it gets changed entirely into light. Yet not one bit of electricity is ever used up by the light bulb, and all the electricity flows out of the filament and back down the other wire. College textbooks are full of electricity, yet they have no electric charge! Electricity is like sound waves, no no, it’s just like wind, no, the electricity is like the air molecules. Electricity is like cars on a highway, no, the electricity is the speed of the cars, no, electricity is just like “traffic waves.” Electricity is a class of phenomena …a class of phenomena which can be stored in batteries! If you want to measure a quantity of electricity, what units should you use? Why Volts of electricity, of course. And also Coulombs of electricity. And Amperes of electricity. Watts of electricity and Joules, all at the same time. Yet “electricity” is definitely a class of phenomena; merely a type of event. Since we can’t have an amount of an event, we can’t really measure the quantity of electricity at all… right? Right?
And then he goes on to answer all the questions one by one, in a very straightforward way.
Holy cow, I’ve just read to the “poynty” part in his work. Now I have a vague sense of why Tesla wanted to put wireless electricity down into every household. And even Feynmann was afraid of explaining the truth because of its complexity/difficulty.
I think Bill Beaty’s page on electricity might be what you’re looking for. Here’s a joking teaser which shows the kinds of questions he’s trying to answer:
And then he goes on to answer all the questions one by one, in a very straightforward way.
Holy cow, I’ve just read to the “poynty” part in his work. Now I have a vague sense of why Tesla wanted to put wireless electricity down into every household. And even Feynmann was afraid of explaining the truth because of its complexity/difficulty.