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What is it that travels through an electric circuit at nearly the speed of light?
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∙ 14y ago
the wave front of electric current. the electrons themselves move much slower but they keep pushing electrons ahead of them on resulting in a wavefront that moves at almost the speed of light.
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∙ 13y ago
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