Define current in terms of electron movement with an electric field.

Question

Define current in terms of electron movement with an electric field.

Answer 1

Sounds like your textbook/teacher's perspective is excessively narrow. Electrons have charge and the Electric field accelerates charged particles, but current is not defined in terms of electrons or the electric field. Current is the flow rate of charge regardless of particle carrying the charge or cause of its flow..

Answer 2

If you apply a voltage across a wire, the voltage causes an electric field to appear in the wire. The field causes electrons to drift along the wire, and that drift of electrons is what we call current.

One ampere of current is one coulomb of charge per second.

One coulomb is about 6.241 E18 electrons.

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