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Re: Doc. It seems I remember Budda standing the flowbs on their heads by drawing the arrows backward in the CCS

Yeah, "conventional flowbs" would have to stand on their heads - and revise their definitions on that one at the same time (pg.4 of Buddha's C4S manual). When I was at Berserkeley they started using a new text to teach junior year E&M, that was based around the concept of sources and sinks for everything. I guess the prof that wrote it was trying to offer a new way to sort out (or maybe to perpetuate?) the confusion.

That page from the old C4S manual is a classic case of confusion of the language we use to share circuit ideas, because then he called the damned thing a current source, while his "unconventional flowb" directionality arrows would make it a current *sink*. Unless of course you consider negative current flow. Or the idea that an electron is really a wavefront with only a probability of being at a given point at a given time anyway, which is disturbed simply by the act of observation. I admit that I lean toward wave theory to describe matter and energy anyway, so I gave up on a "favored theory via strength of argument" about electron flow many years ago, and just put a convention in my head that allows me to figure out where the red wire goes and where the black wire goes to make sound.


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