I’ve seen descirptions of batteries, and how they kinda push electrons through wires to the other side, but how does that actually work? What’s the mechanism that makes them actually move?
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Batteries (and cells) have two terminals – one negative and one positive. Electrons are negatively charged and so are repelled from the negative terminal and attracted to the positive one hence they leave at the negative and re-enter at the positive.
That’s really it as far as the circuit is concerned: attraction and repulsion. The conversion of energy is a bit more complicated.
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