Uploaded December 2018 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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When charge moves, we call it electric current, but the word current is usually reserved for things like water flows. Does electric current really work like that? Electrons are quantum particles, so we have to be careful.
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What the HECK are Magnets?
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