What is electric current? what is the conventional direction of electric current? why was this direction taken to represent the flow of electric current?
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according to the ancient theories the direction of current is taken as the direction of flow of positive charge
but later it war discovered that only electrons flow but not any other positive charge
but as it becomes familiar to all and many other inventions and discoveries are also done, this convention is taken as it is and only few changes made
direction is taken to represent the flow of electric current to find in which direction the potential is dropping
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Answer:
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Explanation:
Current is defined as the rate of flow of charge.
In other words, the current flowing in a conductor is the amount of charge flowing per second through it . It is denoted by the latter I (or i) .
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.
The current in the external unit is directed towards the negative terminal and away from the positive terminal.
Thus, the electrons would move in the opposite direction inside or through the wires.
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