Does electricity flowing in cables experience centrifugal forces?

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I imagine them as fast cars on a highway, when the cable is straight that’s not a problem, but when the cable has bends and stuff?

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The idea of electrons flowing as a current through the wire like water in a river or cars on a highway might be helpful conceptually, but isn’t physically what’s happening in the wire. Like others have said it’s more chaotic interactions between electrons, and not a single electron going down the highway.

The scales that those interactions are happening on as well are so small that any curve that we can observe would be a “straight line” in the context of the electrons.

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