Does electricity flow from the positive to the negative terminal or the negative to the positive terminal?

Answer 1

That's a convention. It could be drawn the other way, but it is better to stick to the convention, to avoid confusion.

That's a convention. It could be drawn the other way, but it is better to stick to the convention, to avoid confusion.

That's a convention. It could be drawn the other way, but it is better to stick to the convention, to avoid confusion.

That's a convention. It could be drawn the other way, but it is better to stick to the convention, to avoid confusion.

Answer 2

Electricity flows from the negative terminal to the positive terminal. This flow of electrons is due to the difference in electric potential between the two terminals, creating an electric current through the circuit.

Answer 3

Conventional current flows from positive to negative, when electricity was in its infancy this was thought to be the rule. With more sophisticated equipment it was found that this rule was not true. Electrons flow from negative to positive. Many electronic schematics still are drawn using conventional current flow.

Answer 4

The tangent at any point on an electric field line gives the direction of the electric field at that point. The electric field lines begin from positive charge and terminate or end on negative charge.

Answer 5

The conventional current direction is the opposite of electron current direction. Conventional current leaves the positive battery terminal, but electron current leaves the negative terminal!

The direction of current flow is a matter of convention and perspective, like what direction is "up" inside a space station.

It was once assumed that the charge carrier was a positively charged particle. In turn, this set the direction of arrows used in current designations and on diodes (and later on junction transistors).

Much later, the electron was isolated, and its charge was measured to be minus one (-1). Rather than rewrite every document in existence, we began to think with a split perspective.

Answer 6

No not always. There could be from negative charges to positive charges.

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Answer 7

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away from positive point charge and towards negative point charge.

Answer 8

yes..

as it deviates 4m positive to negative

Answer 9

That's a convention. It could be drawn the other way, but it is better to stick to the convention, to avoid confusion.

Answer 10

Direction of electric field line is from positive to negative.