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0 pointsiraqmtpizza4y ago0 comments

>you're wrong if you understand electrons moving through the wire as how electricity works

in direct current, how does charge move from one terminal to another if it's not carried by electrons (which often act as waves)?

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naasking4y ago

Moving charge isn't how power transfer in electricity mainly works, that's the point. Moving electrons is less than half of the story.

XorNot4y ago

This is an oversimplification as well though, because the model for current flow is exactly based on moving electrons and that works just fine to predict results.

The battery in the experiment is explicitly based on chemistry which is exactly described as electrons being moved around.

tsimionescu4y ago

It mostly works that way, but not exclusively: the moving electrons in one circuit create an electro-magnetic field that can induce currents in other nearby conductors that are not part of the same circuit.

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