I know that flow of electrons is not current, it is opposite to the direction of flow of electrons, is it just a convention? why such a convention was chosen if it is one. . Please correct me if you think i have very wrong assumptions.
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At least in german education you are usually taught about the concepts of technical and physical current flow.
Technical current flow is form positive to negative where as the real phyiscal current flow is the movement of electrons from negative to positive.
Because Benjamin franklin just guessed which way it went and nobody was bothered to change it when they found out he was wrong.
* Back when Benjamin Franklin studied electricity, he discovered that current flowed but wasn’t sure which way was positive and which way was negative….
* So he guessed.
* Later they found out he had it backwards.
* But they had used his conventions for so long that they kept it.
* So “current” and flowing electrons are the same thing just the signs make it seem otherwise.
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