What is Ground? Earth Ground/Earthing

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What is ground and what does it mean to do Earthing? Here I answer what ground is, how it relates to your wall socket and the wiring in your appliances, how to get grounds for your high voltage and other experiments, and about the ground symbol in electrical schematics. This video was made possible in part by these Patreon supporters: Printable Science Jonathan Rieke James Padden Support RimstarOrg on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=680159 or make a one-time donation at http://rimstar.org/donate_support_rimstarorg.htm Subscribe so that you don't miss new videos as they come out http://www.youtube.com/user/rimstarorg?sub_confirmation=1 Go to the main channel page here https://youtube.com/rimstarorg For a detailed video on grounding according to the NEC (US National Electrical Code) see Mike Holt's excellent Grounding - Safety Fundamentals (1 hour long) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpgAVE4UwFw. See also: Does Volts or Amps Kill You? Voltage, Current and Resistance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iKD7vuq-rY&list=PLFsZmHTZL-znMsTduihhoYU21XL-d3p3K Portable Crystal Radio using Loop Antenna and Pizza Box https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iunAvz9PbN0&list=PLFsZmHTZL-zlSltC6ELZW9PK4ks7wgPRz How to Read a Schematic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HZ-EQ8Hc8E&list=PLFsZmHTZL-znMsTduihhoYU21XL-d3p3K The previous version of this video had an error in it that was too big to fix with an annotation, and so it was removed, fixed, enhanced and reuploaded. The error was a silly one on my part where I had the fault go to ground, silly because I should have realized that wasn't what happens since I knew about the ground being connected to the neutral bar in the breaker panel. A big thanks to all who brought it up in the comments to the previous version. Thanks to Matthias Wandel (https://www.youtube.com/user/Matthiaswandel) for allowing me to photograph his breaker panel and thanks to Todd Harrison (https://www.youtube.com/user/toddrharrison) for checking over this new version of the video before I released it. Follow behind-the-scenes on: Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/RimStarz Google+ https://plus.google.com/116395125136223897621 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/rimstarorg http://rimstar.org A Darker Heart - music by audionautix.com