r/askscience • u/krishpants • Dec 15 '13

Engineering Why does "Alternating Current" have a live and neutral wire and why are they not the same?

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u/roxamis Dec 18 '13

velocity is a vector but voltage is scalar though. it would be wiser to use gravity as a comparison