Question

What is electric current? What is its direction of flow in an electrical circuit?

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Answer 1

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Answer:-

❍ An electric current is a flow of electric charges (electrons) through a conductor.

❍ Potential difference between the ends of the wire makes electric current to flow in the wire.

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Answer 2

• An electric current is a stream of charged particles, such as electrons or ions, moving through an electrical conductor or space. It is measured as the net rate of flow of electric charge past a region. ... In electric circuits the charge carriers are often electrons moving through a wire.

• The direction of an electric current is by convention the direction in which a positive charge would move. Thus, the current in the external circuit is directed away from the positive terminal and toward the negative terminal of the battery. Electrons would actually move through the wires in the opposite direction.

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