electrons flow from low potential to high potential(towards +ve terminal) while the direction of electric force is from high potential to low potential.doesnt this force resist in the motion of electron???
2007-07-07 05:30:36 · 7 answers · asked by abdul r 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
is just a nomenclature problem
these are the same flow with different names and 9(nfortunately) polarity conventions
this link might help:
2007-07-07 05:35:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
NO! Because you are just talking terminology, and not real things.
Simply (unless there are other factors involved, lict active components in the circuit) you may consider electrons moving from the negative to the positive terminal of the battery.
Plus, your terminology is all wrong. You use "low" and "high" as if they are a real thing. According to electrons, high potential is negative. I suggest you use other words than high and low. There are STILL. two "flavors" of current flow in the world, and each makes explanations of what is happening "seem" more reasonable depending on what is trying to be described - "semiconductors" vs cosmology physics. In the cosmos, what moves is electrons (because they are lighter) - there are NO "holes" moving around out there.) There are positively-charged entities, but they are moving at 1/2000the the velocity of electrons, because that is their mass ratio.
What "resists" the movement of electrons (from Maxwell's equations) is the magnetic field established by such a movement. Perhaps that is what you were trying to describe. As stated, your question is meaningless.
If electrons "move" then there is a magnetic field established that resists their movement. That is why they do not ALL move at once. if you analyze the total forces involved, any mass movement of electrons is "slowed" by the magnetic field produced by their movement, but not halted because there are other forces at play. The calculus allows us to talk about such things mathematically... Hope I have helped...
Ron.
2007-07-07 12:50:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To put it another way Electron which negatively charged move from -ve to + ve which causes a current to flow from +ve to -ve. If +ve and -ve are connected by a piece of perfect conductor the current is only limited by the internal resistance of the battery.
2007-07-07 12:36:00 · answer #3 · answered by Mike C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Electrons have a negative charge (Ben Franklin did a bad). if you look at mass flow and energy as opposed to current, everything is spontaneously flowing downhill.
That negative sign was a major blunder. So was defining geometric and optical rotations in opposite directions.
2007-07-07 12:37:13 · answer #4 · answered by Uncle Al 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Direction of electric force is determined by positive charge, its direction is vice versa for electrons...
2007-07-07 12:36:03 · answer #5 · answered by MeisəM 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no electric force doesn't resist motion of electron.as force of attraction of electron is more than electric force.
2007-07-07 12:36:11 · answer #6 · answered by scorpion 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes.
2007-07-07 12:43:21 · answer #7 · answered by ag_iitkgp 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋