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Does current flow through a Battery?
VK3DRB:
The northern hemisphere is UP on conventional maps, and Australia is down under. It is only that way by convention - nothing else; and the world would have turned out the same. Similar for conventional current flow versus the "flow" of electrons. We could have easily had everything the opposite way around in our thinking and everything would work just as well.
TimFox:
Yes, the two poles (north and south) have physical meaning and either one could be defined as "up". Choosing any other point on the sphere (e.g., London) as the "pole" for spherical co-ordinates works for aviation maps local to Heathrow navigation, but would not work generally.
GlennSprigg:
--- Quote from: IanB on November 03, 2021, 03:08:49 pm ---There is an interesting parallel here with my field of chemical engineering.
A chemical plant is a little bit like a big and complex electrical or electronic system, with pipes instead of wires. An electrical schematic and a process schematic look superficially very similar.
When simulating a chemical plant, it is common to work with a static, or steady state analysis, where nothing is changing with time. This is useful for design. This analysis is somewhat different from a dynamic analysis, where there are transients and everything is moving.
Now, if we jump back to the electrical world, and consider the static or steady state analysis of a circuit, we should discover that the current through a capacitor is zero (unless it leaks). Furthermore, in an AC circuit, the average current over time should be zero as well.
So one might in fact argue that current does not flow through a capacitor, when viewed in a certain way.
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Exactly...
I KNOW everyone here knows how a capacitor works in general, that's why I can not grasp why some people here are confusing what I'm saying,
with something else??? I keep repeating that forgetting about all naming conventions, and the direction of flow of what ever it is, that it is the attached
external circuit that results in the flow of whatever from one side, and back to the other side!!?? , and so not through the dielectric??!!
I'm convinced I must be going mad, hahaha... and think about 'Light' being the absence of 'Darkness' or something... :scared: Sorry folks... :phew:
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