Electrical Charge and Current

Cards (4)

  • What is electric current?
    A flow of electrical charge
  • How is the size of electric current defined?
    It is the rate of flow of charge
  • What does it mean that current has the same value at any point in a closed series circuit?
    Charge is conserved throughout the circuit
  • What is the relationship between electric charge and current?
    • Electric current is a flow of electric charge.
    • The size of current is the rate of flow of charge.