Re: Electron velocity question
I'm suprised nobody has talked about electron drift which is totally different than electron speed. I would think that most people would easily reverse the two.
FYI, for a copper wire of radius of 1 mm carrying a current of 10 Amps, the drift velocity (velocity the electron travels down the wire) is only a very slow 0.024 cm/sec.
That same electron is traveling about c/3 around the copper atoms though.
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