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This week on the channel +719K views this week

Inside the wires with The Engineering Mindset

Paul Evans uses a battery, switch and lamp to explain why a circuit's energy delivery depends on electric fields.

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Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

How Electricity Works - for visual learnersHow Electricity Works - for visual learners
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  1. 0:48Conventional current and electron flow describe opposite directions, reflecting the history of how electric charge was understood.
  2. 2:23A water-pump analogy connects voltage with pressure, current with flow rate and resistance with opposition to flow.
  3. 4:20Copper's mobile free electrons can drift through the wire, rather than needing to arrive from the battery.
  4. 12:20Surface charges establish the electric field gradient inside and around the wires.
  5. 15:04Closing the switch launches electrical disturbances near light speed, while individual electrons drift much more slowly.

The electrons drift, but the electrical disturbance travels far faster. That distinction gives Paul Evans plenty to illustrate in "How Electricity Works - for visual learners", the busiest of The Engineering Mindset's highlighted archive videos right now.

Evans starts with a battery, switch, lamp and wire, then works inward: copper atoms, mobile electrons and the electric fields that make a circuit work. The familiar water-pump analogy gets readers through voltage and current before the explanation reaches surface charges and what happens at the instant a switch closes. The tutorial includes a sponsored closing segment.

With no new uploads this week, that almost two-year-old lesson is drawing around 5,800 views a day. The more recent "How a CPU Turns 1s and 0s Into Everything You See" also remains active, alongside "MOSFET vs Transistor vs Relay: Most People Get This Wrong", which tackles component choices for switching, amplification and motor control. It's a useful spread: electricity's underlying physics, the computer built from it, and the parts needed to make a circuit behave.

The channel added roughly 719,000 views over the week, while subscribers held steady. Today's viewing pace is less than half its usual level. Among nearby science channels, NileBlue had a much larger week for views, while Stuff Made Here is also running well below its usual daily pace.

For The Engineering Mindset, the enduring draw is making small, invisible processes legible. Its most-watched regular upload, "Transistors Explained - How transistors work", has passed twenty million views.

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The videos drawing views on The Engineering Mindset right now

How a CPU Turns 1s and 0s Into Everything You See488,491 views MOSFET vs Transistor vs Relay: Most People Get This Wrong829,250 views
The facts
Subscribers
4,500,000
Channel views, last 7 days
719,250
Videos published this week
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The numbers

Here is The Engineering Mindset's week in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels
NileBlue
10,254,107
Steve Mould
1,411,821
Real Engineering
1,382,552
PBS Space Time
1,317,768
Practical Engineering
1,168,113
The Engineering Mindset
719,250
Physics Girl
665,101
TheDadLab
555,171
Stuff Made Here
529,168
subscribers
4,500,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
353,029,596
views per day
50,035
typical day: 118,279
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
TheDadLab
5,130,000
Real Engineering
5,120,000
Practical Engineering
4,850,000
Stuff Made Here
4,760,000
The Engineering Mindset
4,500,000
NileBlue
3,660,000
Steve Mould
3,620,000
Physics Girl
3,550,000
PBS Space Time
3,540,000
As of November 13, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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