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Lesson: Chapter 19 — Current Electricity

19.1. Static and current electricity 5 of 6

Question 5

What is an electric current?

The right answer is the one marked above.

A current of electric charges flowing through a conductor. The word that does the work in the definition is flowing. Charges that are not moving are static electricity, not a current.

The definition names two requirements: charges to move, and a conductor for them to move through. Activity 19.1 supplied the first by rubbing and the second with a wire.

Answer the question to continue.