alleryStart learning →Conventional current in a circuit is taken to point in which direction?
AThe direction electrons drift
BThe direction positive charge would flow
CThe direction of least resistance
DThe direction opposite the field
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. The direction positive charge would flow
1. Conventional current was fixed by convention long before charge carriers were understood.
2. It is defined as the direction in which positive charge would move.
3. In a metal the carriers are electrons, which drift the opposite way, so option one is the common trap.
4. Conventional current follows the electric field, not the path of least resistance chosen after the fact.
_Source: OpenStax College Physics (CC BY 4.0), Ch 20 "Electric Current, Resistance, and Ohm's Law", section 20.1 Current_
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