[Amps] "Conventional" current flow

Ron Youvan ka4inm at gmail.com
Fri Dec 9 15:52:34 EST 2016


   Mike WV2ZOW Clarson wrote:

> Jim and Bill: I see wind was mentioned. When we say North Wind, that means
> the wind is coming from the North, but my weather vane points to the south.
> The wind called the north wind blows to the south. Kind of the same thing
> as current flow, isn't it?

   The same thing with magnets, the compass has a marked needle that 
points north, but is is a "north seeking magnet," it is a south pole.

   The thing with "the flow of electricity" is that the only physical 
thing moving down there is moving against the direction of all of the 
arrows in all of the semiconductors.
-- 
   Ron  KA4INM - Youvan's corollary:
                 Every action results in unwanted side effects.


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