Reading current as charge flow - Electrochemistry | Zoonk

Reading current as charge flow - Electrochemistry | Zoonk

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Reading current as charge flow

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A tight diagram of a wire segment with a vertical counting line across it, small charge dots passing through the line, and a stopwatch labeled “1 s”; show more dots crossing the line with the label “more charge per second = larger current.”

Current is a flow rate

To read current, imagine picking one spot in a wire and counting how much electric charge passes that spot each second. More charge per second means a larger current.