Electric Current Vs Conventional Current

Flow of negative charges is called electron current.

Electric current vs conventional current.

We need a notation to do some calculations like in kirchhoff s law. Current most important term in electricity if you wanna know about electricity you need to understand current in this video i explained you a little term of. Electric current can be either negative or positive but conventional current is always positive. Current flows from the negative side of the battery through the resistance to the positive side rather than vice versa.

In general analyzing an electrical circuit yields results that are independent of the assumed direction of current flow. The flow of positive charges or proton is called conventional current. It has same direction of electric field. Electron flow is simply the opposite of conventional current flow.

These two notations are opposite to each other. Electron flow is what actually happens and electrons flow out of the negative terminal through the circuit and into the positive terminal of the source. So if the arrow from the picture above were at the bottom of the circuit diagram this would illustrate electron flow. Conventional current assumes that current flows out of the positive terminal through the circuit and into the negative terminal of the source.

Con ventional current flow is the standard that most all of the world follows. It is important to realize that the difference between conventional current flow and electron flow in no way effects any real world behavior or computational results. This was the convention chosen during the discovery of electricity. It has opposite direction of electric field.

Electron current and conventional current are two types of notation we use to mention current flow in a circuit. For a flow of positive charges both the electric current and the conventional current are the same.