"Common definitions of electricity are not instinctively accessible, they require a prior knowledge of other functional terms such as “electrons,” “flow,” “charge,” and “current.” Although [[Richard Feynman]], in the opening volume of his magisterial Lectures on Physics, was quite perfunctory—“**there is electrical energy, which has to do with pushing and pulling by electric charges**”—when he returned to the topic in detail in the second volume, dealing with mechanical and electrical energies and with steady currents, he did so by deploying calculus." ([Location 763](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08SGC3TD3&location=763)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[electricity]], [[electrical-energy]], [[electric-flow]], [[electric-charge]], [[electric-current]], [[electrons]], **Source** -- [[202412030828 - B - How the World Really Works]]