You Do NOT 'Charge' A Battery!

It's very common language to say "I need to charge my battery," but that's a total misnomer. Your battery ALWAYS has the same amount of charge in it. This video should set the record straight!
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[sibusisomaseko]

"My breakfast gave me the energy to do this stuff" - I burst out laughing.

[Slash]

I want this channel to have 1m subs, its literally the best thing on YouTube. I found it when I was basically sure I had seen all the good stuff on YouTube and now I have years of videos to look back on! Thanks Mr Lucid!

[Dark-Lark]

Next time I lead people into battle I will yell "Energize!".

[noapology]

When I woke up this morning, I realized I had forgotten to charge my phone, so I plugged it in to charge it. Then I watched this video. So, naturally I unplugged it so it wouldn't charge, then re-plugged it so it would energize. I done good, huh?

[ScienceAsylum]

Kalistic Modiani: Yes, I realize this, but alternative definitions of the word "charge" wouldn't exist if people hadn't used the word incorrectly to begin with. Besides, my point is using any definition other than the scientific one gives people new to physics the wrong impression of what's happening. In science, we're pretty careful about our words only having one meaning.

(Also, I would have directly replied to your comment, but your privacy settings are preventing it.)

[sagarsharma-qfhs]

I cannot thank you enough for helping me understand this elegant concept made terribly confusing by scientific jargon...

[Lucky]

1:50 PSA: don't ever connect a wire directly to both ends of a battery like that. At best, the battery will discharge far more quickly than normal because the wire, on it's own, provides very little resistance. That's actually what's meant when something has a "short circuit" -- the voltage is too high compared to the resistance and so the electricity moves too quickly. That can damage electronic devices, which is why they many devices shut down automatically in the case of a short circuit.

[abhinandan]

Another piece of great work!! Inspite of being an Electrical Engineer, I haven't realized this fact ever, until watching the title of this video. I do know how a battery works but never thought about this phrase " charging a battery". Within a couple of seconds after watching the title I realized, this is so true!!! But nobody ever talks about it and not even in a Physics class. Awesome work man!!! Very very lucidly explained and u certainly deserve much more views.

[kapilellawadi]

If you push your phone in the right places, a pizza will arrive at your house.
What a time to be alive!!!!

[tektel]

This videos really needs more views, unfortunely i have no friends or family who understand english to share it. But you got a thumb.

[manuelcheta]

Just re-energized my phone. I like it so much better :D

[qweify]

Thanks so much for the videos, in school a lot of stuff is taught wrongly in the earlier years so when you move on to university and such the common preconceptions make some topics so much harder to learn such as how energy is actually carried in wires and that electrons themselves move really slowly

[ayushtiwari]

A crazy scientist teaching you stuff makes it way more interesting than what your Professor does at school.

[casperfriendlyjp]

Your fun personality in this video has charged me to subsscribe 😉! ....Thank you for making it fun to learn😊

[radishpineapple]

I've always thought of both uses of the word as coming from the the definition of "charge" as a verb meaning "to load with some sort of burden, duty, responsibility, accusation, etc." This is actually the original meaning of the word. It's perhaps an old-fashioned word, but it's still perfectly serviceable.

To charge something means to add charge, i.e. to add a load. If the load is a quantity of gunpowder, you can charge your muskets. If the load is an electrical potential, you can charge a capacitor. If the load is the capacity to experience electrostatic repulsion or attraction, then certain particles possess an intrinsic "electrical" charge. If the load is energy, you can charge a battery with that charge of energy.

Based on the etymological use of the word, one can reasonably use the word "charge" to mean both "add electrical charge" and "energize a battery." Only if you forget the word's etymology, and insist that "electrical charge" is the true meaning of the word, that you can claim that the latter usage is incorrect.

[stevedoe]

2:56
When you connect a “charger”...mmm “energizer”, oh wait, that name has already been taken.

[ChallengeTheNarrative]

Nice. I learnt something.
Pun time! This channel has a lot of POTENTIAL. 😳 Yeah hear the groans.

[ScienceAsylum]

Mallu: 1) No, the battery gradually loses voltage as you use it. The drop to zero is not sudden. 2) If all you connect to a battery is a copper wire, it'll drain the battery REALLY FAST. Lower resistance means higher current, which means higher energy use.

[altuber_athlete]

This channel is simply perfect. One question: you said batteries don't lose charge, however they are usually rated in ampere-hours (A·h) which indicates the amount of charge they can provide before dying, which suggests they indeed lose charge. Sooo, I'm confused. I'd love to hear your explanation, crazy 🤓

[TheEulerID]

One the dictionary definitions of charge (as a transitive verb) is to restore the active materials in a storage battery by applying a current in reverse to it's normal direction flow. Charge has lots of meanings, such as placing a charge of powder in a gun, bulls charge, prosecutors charge, audiences get charged with energy. It does not solely mean (or even mainly mean) giving an electrical charge to something. Also, charging a capacitor also adds energy to it. It's perfectly fine to think of charging something with energy.