On 27/07/2014 22:46, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
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.

Yup, they don't call it "electron drift" for nothing!

However, the wave-front of the movement is typically
within one order of magnitude of the speed of light.



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Cheers,

John.

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