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Plus, as far as I know this is interesting trivia rather than practical information for most engineers. I have a BSEE and don't remember the speed of electrons
by svachalek 14y ago
Plus, as far as I know this is interesting trivia rather than practical information for most engineers. I have a BSEE and don't remember the speed of electrons ever being brought up; for everything I ever learned it was more important to know about the speed of electricity. (But then I did software my whole career so maybe I'm missing something.)
It was mentioned that the direction of current is opposite the flow of electrons. But again you never cared about the electrons, just the electricity.
- yew 14y agoEE work is usually done with traditional, well-characterized materials. Treating drift velocity as anything other than part of a constant or a temperature variance equation is pretty rare. It's more common if you're doing novel research.