I promise you that if you collect 10 random people and ask them what Ohms law is, at most you get 5 that knows it's something about electricity. You are lucky if you have one that knows it.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago

Yeah I know it has to do with resistance but I couldn't quote it to you rn, I'd have to look it up. And I'm vaping rn at .4ohms lol.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's taught in every school... At least in Europe.

[–] russjr08@bitforged.space 3 points 4 days ago

I can only speak for myself here but... A lot of things are taught in school. Most of them weren't something that I use everyday and thus have forgotten about it (some more than others, of course).

Ohm's Law would've been taught to me sometime during highschool (as the other commenter mentioned, I can tell you it relates to electricity but without looking it up I couldn't tell you the actual principle behind it) - I graduated from highschool 10 years ago, and have not had a reason to "flex" that memory ever since then.

[–] Blackmist 1 points 3 days ago

Great. So is history, trigonometry and literature.

It doesn't mean adults know it. Most of what you learn in school will be forgotten unless you have a reason to keep using it.