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  • What is current?
    The flow of electric charge
  • What is charge?
    A fundamental property of matter that can be negatively or positively charged
  • what is potential difference?
    the 'push' that gets the charges to move through wires and components
  • what is resistance?
    The opposition to the flow of current
  • What is power in physics?
    the rate at which energy is transferred
  • what is real current?
    when the negative electrons move around the circuit but the positive charges stay still