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What is an intuitive explanation on how a buck and boost converter transfer energy?

I can understand how a buck converter can step down the voltage but only with the formulas. I am struggling to understand intuitively how the inductor stores energy and releases it in a way so that ...
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Buck and boost converter inductor confusion

I have seen that a boost converter uses the spikes of an inductor to step up the capacitor voltage as this spike is stored on the capacitor. Why don't we get a similar effect in the buck converter? A ...
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