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Apprentice Confidently Explains Ohm's Law to Journeyman, Gets Every Single Part Wrong

The explanation involved phrases like 'voltage is basically the speed of electricity' and 'resistance is when the wire doesn't want to,' prompting the journeyman to sit down on a bucket.

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The Electrician's Enlightenment
Apprentice Confidently Explains Ohm's Law to Journeyman, Gets Every Single Part Wrong
First-year electrical apprentice Cody Breaker reportedly reduced a 28-year journeyman to stunned silence on a job site Wednesday by delivering a confident and entirely incorrect explanation of Ohm's Law. The incident began when journeyman electrician Frank Ampere asked Breaker to calculate the current draw on a 20-amp branch circuit, a routine task intended as a teaching moment. 'So voltage is basically how fast the electricity is going,' Breaker began, according to three witnesses. 'And amps are how much electricity is in the wire, like water in a hose, except the hose is the resistance, which is when the wire doesn't want to do it.' Ampere reportedly opened his mouth to respond, closed it, then sat down on an overturned bucket. 'He then said V equals I times R stands for Volts equals Intensity times Reluctance,' said coworker Janet Busbar, who captured the exchange on her phone. 'Frank looked like a man watching his house burn down.' Breaker went on to claim that watts are 'basically the same as amps but bigger,' that a kilowatt-hour is 'a thousand watts going for an hour, like a road trip,' and that Georg Ohm was 'the guy who invented the ohm meter at Radio Shack.' Ampere has reportedly requested a transfer to a solo assignment. Breaker remains confident in his understanding and has offered to tutor other apprentices.

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