Electric Current Vs Conventional Current

Current most important term in electricity if you wanna know about electricity you need to understand current in this video i explained you a little term of.

Electric current vs conventional current.

For a flow of positive charges both the electric current and the conventional current are the same. This was the convention chosen during the discovery of electricity. Electron flow is simply the opposite of conventional current flow. The conventional current for an electron flow is positive whereas the electrical current is negative.

Electron current and conventional current are two types of notation we use to mention current flow in a circuit. In general analyzing an electrical circuit yields results that are independent of the assumed direction of current flow. Electric current can be either negative or positive but conventional current is always positive. It is important to realize that the difference between conventional current flow and electron flow in no way effects any real world behavior or computational results.

Electron flow is what actually happens and electrons flow out of the negative terminal through the circuit and into the positive terminal of the source. We need a notation to do some calculations like in kirchhoff s law. Proton moves from positive to negative. Flow of negative charges is called electron current.

It has opposite direction of electric field. Current flows from the negative side of the battery through the resistance to the positive side rather than vice versa. Con ventional current flow is the standard that most all of the world follows. It has same direction of electric field.

And we consider conventional current as the standard notation of current flow. These two notations are opposite to each other.