Is the current in a lamp the same as in a battery?
Is the current in a lamp the same as in a battery?
Likewise with electric current in an electric circuit. For example, in a simple circuit consisting of a battery and a lamp, the electric current produced in the lamp is the same electric current in the wires that connect the lamp and the same electric current flowing through the battery.
Which is an example of the flow of charge?
For example, in a simple circuit consisting of a battery and a lamp, the electric current produced in the lamp is the same electric current in the wires that connect the lamp and the same electric current flowing through the battery. Electric charge flows through these devices (the flow of charge being current).
How does water flow through an electrical circuit?
Current flows through electrical devices, just as water flows through a plumbing circuit of pipes. If a water pump produces water pressure, water flows through both the pump and the circuit. Likewise with electric current in an electric circuit.
What happens to the current in a battery?
During the discharge of a battery, the current in the circuit flows from the positive to the negative electrode. According to Ohm’s law, this means that the current is proportional to the electric field, which says that current flows from a positive to negative electric potential. But what happens inside the battery?
Why do batteries flow in the same direction?
If you connected both pumps pointing in the same direction you would get more water pressure (voltage) because the pumps are helping each other out (2 batteries in series). Pumps and loops are no way of describing an electrical circuit unless you are trying to describe the process to a 5 year old. It’s all about potential difference.
Where does the current flow in a circuit?
At all points in the circuit you should measure the same current flowing and always from battery +ve to -ve (eg. when measuring current in the wire between ‘ground’ and battery -ve, the meter’s positive lead would be connected to ‘ground’). Your diagram perfectly illustrates what the current should be doing.
For example, in a simple circuit consisting of a battery and a lamp, the electric current produced in the lamp is the same electric current in the wires that connect the lamp and the same electric current flowing through the battery. Electric charge flows through these devices (the flow of charge being current).
