What Is and What Isn't an Electric Current?

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Scientific Paper
Title What Is and What Isn\'t an Electric Current?
Author(s) Sorin Cezar Cosofret
Keywords Electric Current
Published 2009
Journal None

Abstract

Electric current is defined like a movement of electrical charge from a region to another region inside an electric circuit. The most common form of electric current is related to a transport of electrons, and in this case the direction of a current is formally accepted as being opposite to electrons flow movement. But, an electric current can be a transport of positive or negative ions in an electrolytic cell, too. These are well known concepts written in any introductory physics books. The present text tries to answer to a simple question: Do these concepts correspond to experimental reality?