On Sunday 19 November 2006 18:09, Doug McGarrett wrote:
ELECTRONS flow from a negative point to a more positive point; what is known as "conventional current" --what all engineers design with-- goes from positive to negative. I think it was Benjamin Franklin who made the original mistake, in deciding that current flows from a positive terminal to a negative. It really makes no difference to design calculations, so long as you keep your conventions in mind.
--doug
True - Since in a battery the neg terminal has an excess of electrons and the pos a deficit, then it stands to reason that the current flow within the battery is from pos to neg (actually, it isn't, it just seems that way). In normal metallic conductors the current flows from neg to pos but in semiconductors, the majority current carriers are the "holes", or electron deficits. All things considered, though, just ignore the damn physics 'cause it really isn't important to anyone but physicists. Just remember that electron flow is against the arrow and you're ok. Then try to figure out what in Hell Basic Electronics has to do with a Suse list. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org