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Voltage drop in a conductor
My textbook, Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition, by Scherz and Monk, says the following in section 2.3.1 The Mechanisms of Voltage:
In regard to potential energies of free ...
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How can electricity be positive when electrons are negative?
I don't understand how can a for example a battery be positive charged when the electrons are negative charged? I've read that protons are positive but they can't move so are all electricity negative?
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So which direction do electrons really flow?
As I understand it, electrons (which are negatively charged) flow towards positive.
As a convention, we say that current flows from positive to negative. Is this to say that what you connect the ...
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Conductor interaction with single battery terminal
What really is happening inside a wire and inside battery when I connect one end of wire to the one terminal of battery but not the other (open circuit )?
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If I connect to the '+' ...
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Where do electrons go after reaching GND in this Arduino Mega design?
When examining the EAGLE file for the Arduino Mega that I downloaded from their official website, I noticed that the ground (GND) is not connected to anything other than the C4 component, which means ...
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Why would electrons cross a cross section when there is no potential difference?
There is a cross section , it's said that electrons move from left to right and vice versa, and the total sum of the electrons crossing this section from left to right is equal to the ones crossing ...
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What does 'Voltage is the energy per particle' expressions mean?
I recently heard the expression that "Voltage is the amount of energy per electrical particle". I am confused about what it means. Isn't every particle have a certain amount of electrical energy?
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