Chronology | Current Month | Current Thread | Current Date |
[Year List] [Month List (current year)] | [Date Index] [Thread Index] | [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] | [Date Prev] [Date Next] |
Hugh Logan, in discussing the merit of calling the moving charges in
metallic conduction "holes" asks (after much uncontentious stuff):
AnotherI hope you weren't referring to my battery example. I was only trying to
related misconception is that the electron which emerges from
one end of a wire carrying a current is not the same electron
as the one that goes in at the other end, delayed only by
lightspeed. There is no way to tell any electron from any
other electron, and in a sense the statement is meaningless.
I never have understood why these factoids are inserted into
curricula.
explain in simplistic technician language what the direction of electron
current in the external circuit of a battery would be if the charge sign
convention were reversed.