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Not entirely sure what the point of the question is, but here are two of the relations between the charge of the electron and electron flow in a circuit; I hope this helps.

1. The electron has a negative charge. This is an accident of history; there's really nothing fundamentally "negative" about the electron charge, it's just that some some particles have one kind of charge and others have an opposite one, and the the sign of the charge was assigned before electrons had really been discovered. The choice was arbitrary and could have gone either way, but electrons just happened to end up negative. You can blame Ben Franklin for it. But I digress.

Electric current is defined as flowing from positive to negative. If the mobile charge carriers are positively charged, then they are flowing in the same direction as the current. But if the mobile charge carriers are negative - like electrons, which are the carriers in metals - then the carriers are flowing in the opposite direction from the current. In other words, the electrons flow "backwards" because they are negative, because Ben Franklin just happened to write '+' and '-' in the "wrong" places (though he couldn't possibly have known.)

2. The electron charge is -1.6×10-19 Coulombs. To put that another way, one Coulomb is about 6.24×1018 electrons worth of charge. Since one Ampere is the flow of one Coulomb of charge per second, it is also a flow rate of 6.24×1018 electrons per second. That's more than six billion billion electrons each second for each Ampere!

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Calculate the total number of electrons flowing through a circuit in 20 minutes and 40 seconds if a current of 40 mA flows through the circuit?

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