How does electric current flow in a circuit?
Jase Bentley
Answered question
2023-01-21
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Mara Holder
Beginner2023-01-22Added 7 answers
The unit of charge is the coulomb (C) and a current of one ampere (I) is flowing when one coulomb of charge passes a point in one second.
The direction of electric current flow in a circuit is the opposite of the direction electrons are moving because electrons are negative and historically it was thought that positive charges carried current. Moving from the positive to the negative end of the circuit is how electric current is described. Electrons are able to flow in conductors, usually metals, because in metallic bonding the outer electrons of the metal atoms flow freely around between atoms.
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