What is electric current?

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If you carefully analyze the life of modern society in technical terms, it becomes clear that the usual order of things determines the electrical current. The structure of society is largely shaped by them. It is possible to refuse from natural gas, replacing it with solid and liquid fuels; gasoline for vehicles is now very successfully replaced analogs on the basis of alcohol; but the electric current is nothing to replace it: it either is or it is not.

People only loosely familiar with electrical engineering, they often think that in this area had long been known and calculated. Actually it is not so. Many of the properties possessed by the electrical current, are axioms (fundamental laws, does not require evidence), although this does not prevent quite successfully to use electrical appliances in the home and in the workplace.

The question “what is an electric current" literature gives an unequivocal answer – the directed movement of charged particles. From the main course of physics it is known that the atom consists of three components: neutron, proton and negatively charged electron (the number varies). Some of the electrons in orbits remote from the attracting nucleus, can leave the atom and continue in “free” condition. As they travel in special environments, formed by circuit elements, the electrons make the right person a job. This may be the increase in temperature of the spiral heating device, generation of magnetic fields in transformers and inductors, oscillatory perturbations of the magnetic fields, etc.

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To create such free particles are sources of electric current. The word “establishment” is only partly true, as not all sources directly generate current. Therefore, there is a division between primary and secondary. First create a current, and the second accumulate and, if necessary, give. Current generation occurs at power plants (hydro, thermal, nuclear, etc.). Generating winding machines rotate in the magnetic field that "knocks" electrons from their orbits. Then the flow of these released particles along the power lines heading towards transformative devices-transformers, in accordance with the law of electromagnetic induction reducing or increasing the RMS voltage. Further, the current goes to consumers, where does the required work. Electrons do not move in “anywhere”: they are sent back to the generator, connected to a huge mass of Land, which they can accrue (almost like people – seek peace). In light of the above, it is necessary to specify the conditions for the existence of electric current:

  • Have a closed loop of conductive material used for the electron a bridge between their source (the ejection of atoms) and earth (ground). Therefore, before connecting the device-the consumer in ordinary household outlet the electrical current, but there is only tension;
  • The current source constantly creates flow in the conductor. Otherwise, no movement (current) is not. If power source is insufficient to overcome the resistance of the material, such a conductor is equal to the dielectric.

For a better understanding of the nature of electric current is often compared to hydraulic systems. Current-the movement of fluid through pipes, voltage – the difference in height, etc. Although this comparison may not explain magnetic properties, but the overall presentation is well suited.

An Interesting point is that direct current is directed from the positive terminal ( + ) to negative (minus), although in reality electrons are moving in the opposite direction.


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