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House & Home Physics

Wire Heating (I²R Loss)

P = I²R
Wire Heating (I²R Loss)

Resistive heating rises with the square of current — the physics behind wire ampacity ratings and why an overloaded cord gets hot.

Computed & rendered in pure C# on the frozen OnlyCSharp 1.8 library — animation baked to GIF with the library's own Gif encoder (no GPU, no ffmpeg, no external packages).