When an electric circuit is broken, what happens to the energy in the wire?

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When an electric circuit is broken, what happens to the energy in the wire?

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It’s not quite like water in a pipe. When the circuit is closed the electrons are moving around and the energy is from a field generated around the wire. When the circuit is broken then they stop and the field stops too.

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