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We always visualize, and assume, current to be flowing from the positive terminal

of the power supply or battery to the negative terminal, through the conducting path

provided by everything that's connected between them. In reality, though, the thing

that's doing the actual physical flowing is huge numbers of electrons, which happen

to carry negative charge. So the actual physical flow is in the opposite direction.

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