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quenlly it may require dare lor the electrons in a long do circuit to drift from one end to the other. In on no circuit when the voltage reverse* SO or 120 times per second the electrons cannot drift far in either direction, but swing back and forth through short distances in the cirediL
Fig. 7 and S give an elementary idea of how electrons flow in a circuit, and how they transmit an electrical Im pulse almost instantaneously. In Fig. 7, the circuit is open at A. Assume that the Urge black dots are the nu cleuses of oopper atoms and that the inner dotted circle represents the three inner orbits with their 28 electrons, as In Fig. 1. The black dot in each outer dotted circle represents the 29th, or free, electron. of etch atom. For simplicity free electrons are all shown
hi the same position, even though when the circuit is open they drift at random in the conductor.
When the circuit Is closed, as -In Fig. 8, battery potential is applied to it and a mutual exchange of electrons occurs between the atoms as indicated by tbe dots with arrowheads: When atom 1 gives up an electron to atom 2, an electron from 2 goes to 3 and so on through the circuit to atom 18, which gives an electron to atom 1. Thus, when the circuit Is dosed an exchange of electrons between the atoms occurred at the tame Instant, fn this way the effect of a compara tively slow flow of electrons Is fell thtough the circuit el once.
This theory verifies to a degree the old belief that an electric current flows through a circuit at the speed of light The chief difference in the old and new theory is in our conception of . what happens in the circuit. The old conception assumed that when a cir cuit was dosed to ah decide power source an eleetrio current flowed out of Its positive terminal and traversed the circuit to the negative terminal almost Instantaneously. The new con ception assumes that electrons are - caused to drift slowly through the cir cuit bom the negative toward the posi tive terminal of the power source, but transmit an electrical impulse at the speed of light.
Electron flow through a circuit may be compared to water flow through a pipe. In Fig. 9, assume a centrifugal pump connected In a pipe circuit filled with water and the valve closed. When the pump operates It builds up pres sure on the discharge side of the valve, as shown by the pressure gage, but water does not flow. If we open tbe
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In Fig. 8 an electron flow Is Indi cated through the battery solution as through the external circuit. This it not true; no electrons as such flow through the solution, but the effect is the same. Different actions occur In different batteries, some complicated and others quite simple.
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