Re: Current Flow

[Brian Whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 03:16 PM 4/19/02, you wrote:
> A 1 ampere current flows through a wire.
> I watch a given point.
> Each second, does a coulomb of charge go by?      1)
> Each second, does 6.25X10^18 electrons go by?    2)

1) can serve as a definition of the Coulomb
2) is true if it corresponds with the following definitions:
The size of the elementary charge is
  1.6E-19 C,    1.6E-20 emus,   4.8E-10 esus


....and it does, doesn't it?


Brian Whatcott
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