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Default Ideal electrical systems (just idle curiosity)

In article 2,
DerbyBorn writes:
I sometimes stay awake at night wondering how it would be if electrons only
went at about 100mph!!


In a typical wire, they move slower than that.
However, the wave-front of the movement is typically
within one order of magnitude of the speed of light.

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