I was a TA for the EE course that all the ME's had to take. They kept trying to understand Kirchhoff's laws and do circuit analysis using intuition, using wate

I was a TA for the EE course that all the ME's had to take. They kept trying to understand Kirchhoff's laws and do circuit analysis using intuition, using water through pipe analogies, stuff like that. The problem is, electricity just isn't intuitive, the analogies are not perfect, nothing in the mechanical world that we understand is quite like it. In fact, we don't really even know why electricity works like it does. I finally told them to stop trying to understand and just do the math and then they had a much easier time.