Electron drift or conventional current? (1 Viewer)

[ohexploitable]

Like if a question asks "find the electrical potential at these points" do you go around from -ve to +ve or +ve to -ve?

 

[BloomyLove]

Well my phys teacher says in that case it should go in the way of the electric currant, so +ve to -ve.

but then again my physics teacher is hopeless.

 

[ohexploitable]

Yar, that's what the textbook answers say... but I don't like it...

 

[captainvagina]

for HSC physics always use conventional current

 

[ohexploitable]

oh, awesome

 

[annabackwards]

You guys probably won't know what i'm saying until you are half way through the Ideas to Implementation chapter, but i think of conventional current = flow of holes and actual current as the flow of electrons

But yes, electrical potential is from +'ve to -'ve in the HSC.