What makes AC electricity alternate directions? How do electrons get anywhere if they just keep going back and forth?

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Is it similar to the waves on the surface of an ocean, where the particles go 2 steps forward and 1 step back in waves? If so, what makes it do that? Why would that be used instead of DC current?

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Someone else mentioned this, but I’m linking a video anyways

In short, electrons don’t do the work. They aren’t the thing we are using in our field. We are using the electromagnetic field

No electrons are used up, at all

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