Meaning of electric current | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A net unidirectional movement of electrons, or other charge carriers, caused by a potential difference.
2. The net charge that passes through some cross-section of a conducting material (in one direction), per unit time.

Equivalents

Examples

“An electric current runs through this wire.”

“SI: ampere (A)”

“CGS: esu/second (esu/s)”

“The electric current in this wire is 5 A.”

“(iii) Electric current is the flow of _____. (iv) The SI unit of electric current is _____ .”

“The electric current is measured by the flow of charge through any cross-section ...”

“From the following table (Table 2), we can see that, as a whole, the former electric field's electric current is smaller, the rare electric field's electric current is larger.”

“This cascading effect continues through the whole series of electrodes and provides gains in electric current of the order of 10⁴-10⁸.”

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