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>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
by iraqmtpizza 5y ago
>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)?
- tsimionescu 5y agoIt 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.
- naasking 5y agoMoving charge isn't how power transfer in electricity mainly works, that's the point. Moving electrons is less than half of the story.
- XorNot 5y agoThis 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.