Hi
please take what I am going to say with a grain of salt, I am a beginner and trying to crawl, I would appreciate your help though.
if current is the flow of charge, and that charge moves inside the wire very slowly.
then it is not possible to have a 5 amp in a DC "every-day" circuit since 5 amps means 5 coulomb per second, and one coulomb is equal to 6.5x10^15 charge, i.e.
5 amp = 3.125x10^16 charges flowing per second.
that does not seam very slow to me when I learned that charge is a substance-like from which the atom is built.
I may still have not settled it, as what is a charge and what is an electron.
I know electrons do not flow inside the wire, i.e. current is NOT the flow of electrons because if it is then
how many electrons will flow in a 5 amp circuit, and if there are 2 wires of different materials in the circuit (say copper and silver) then the electrons from the copper wire will mix with the electrons of the silver wire and after n time we will have a one material wire equal to the mix of all the electrons and that just does not happen.
I have been reading a lot here and there and things do not add up.
Thanks
please take what I am going to say with a grain of salt, I am a beginner and trying to crawl, I would appreciate your help though.
if current is the flow of charge, and that charge moves inside the wire very slowly.
then it is not possible to have a 5 amp in a DC "every-day" circuit since 5 amps means 5 coulomb per second, and one coulomb is equal to 6.5x10^15 charge, i.e.
5 amp = 3.125x10^16 charges flowing per second.
that does not seam very slow to me when I learned that charge is a substance-like from which the atom is built.
I may still have not settled it, as what is a charge and what is an electron.
I know electrons do not flow inside the wire, i.e. current is NOT the flow of electrons because if it is then
how many electrons will flow in a 5 amp circuit, and if there are 2 wires of different materials in the circuit (say copper and silver) then the electrons from the copper wire will mix with the electrons of the silver wire and after n time we will have a one material wire equal to the mix of all the electrons and that just does not happen.
I have been reading a lot here and there and things do not add up.
Thanks