Question

Find the drift speed through a wire made of silver if the wire has a cross-sectional area of 1.50 x 10⁻⁸ m² and it carries a current of 0.500 A. Note that silver has 5.86 x 10²⁸ electrons per cubic meters

Answer 1

Answer:

I = neAvd vd = IneA = 1.59 × 1028 × 1.6 × 10-19 × 5 × 10-6 = 0.02mm/s