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Current flowing inside battery/voltage source
Current is the flow of charges (many say electrons).
Do these charges flow just between the terminals of the source/battery (terminal to terminal) ?
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Do these charges flow through/inside the ...
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Why do batteries need a loop to discharge?
I'm an electrical engineer who has been taught transistors and silison and solid state theory and all that. But when I apply the theory to batteries and cathodic protection, my understanding seems to ...
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Why aren't salt water batteries used to power cars instead of lithium-ion?
I know salt water batteries are less efficient than lithium-ion, but water is safer, can be found anywhere, is cheap and 100% ecological. Even if it doesn't last long, you can refill anywhere. Why can'...
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Kinetic energy and current
When a battery is connected to a resistance circuit, we know that it loses energy because heat is emitted as a result of the collisions between the electrons and stuff, but my question is, is the ...
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Does current flow when you connect a battery to earth?
Let's say that the earth has 0V and everything is ideal,
does current still flow and why?
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is this the reason why current doesn't flow over a resistance if there is another path without resistance? [duplicate]
Let's suppose that a single battery is connected with a wire, which does not have resistance. Electrons will start to flow , in reality, with a wire with resistance, a potential difference would be ...
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Creation of electric field inside a conductor
My book says that as soon as the two ends of a conducting wire touches the two terminals of a battery, it generates an electric field inside the conductor. Why?
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What is the cause of opposite electric current direction of flow of current inside a battery?
My question is that why the direction of current inside a battery is different than that of outside battery?Can someone explain how current is even carried inside a battery because free electrons aren'...
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Current flow with batteries in series vs parallel
Taking let's say three ideal and identical batteries, why does the current flow increase when we add them in series compared to them being in parallel?
I can understand the height analogy for voltage ...
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Batteries in series vs parallel
As fa as I understand it, two identicle batteries in parallel will give double the amperage than just one battery and two batteries in series will give double the voltage. If my understanding is ...
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How to vary the current using batteries?
I am making a door bell as a school assignment. It works by having a solenoid produce a magnetic field which attracts a pice of iron attached on a conductor. when the iron is attracted towards the ...
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Electrons moving in a simple circuit with a battery and a light bulb
I believe my understanding of electric currents is flawed and want some help to clear up a few things. I'm not looking for a precise scientific understanding, but to understand the basics. I'll try to ...
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Why does a battery die more quickly when more resistors are added to the circuit?
I will be explaining what I think:
A battery acts like a pump which provides energy to do work on negative charges to move them towards the negative terminal, and hence creating an electric field. ...
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How can there be a voltage when there is no current?
I'm told at school that the Electromotive Force (e.m.f) of a battery equals the potential difference between the terminals of the battery when there is no current.
How is that possible? How can there ...
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If I charge a battery using a much higher current, can it explode?
If I have a 12V 4Ah lead acid battery and use a battery charger that, let's say for example, can charge 10A, 50A, or 100A. If I theoretically turned it to 100A will the battery explode?
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