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Electric Current and Current Density
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Aurora Borealis (Northern Light)
- Image from international space station of NASA (Image Credit NASA)
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Electric Current
- Flow of charges. - - $Q=Q_{+}-Q_{-} $ - $\quad \quad \propto$ time $t$ - Rate of flow - $\quad \quad I=\frac{Q}{t}$
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Electric Current
- $\Delta t$ - $\Delta Q$ - $I(t)=\text{Lim}_{\Delta t \rightarrow 0} \frac{\Delta Q}{\Delta t}=\frac{d Q}{d t}$ - $\text { Units } \frac{\text { Coulomb }}{\text { Second }}=\text { Ampere }$ - **S.I.** A Fundamental SI unit. - 220-240V Household appliances. $\sim 5 \text { A }$
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Lightening
* Several Thousand Ampere * Fish $\sim 1$ A * Human Nervous System $\mu A$
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How is Current Created ?
- Similarity with flow of water through a pipe - Positive + - Negative - - Rub a piece of amber with fur.
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Conductors
* Pressure, Temperature * Conductors,(Silver, Copper, Aluminium Hg) * Readily conduct electricity * Eletron gas, Free electrons * Belong to whole material - **electrostatics** : Conductors - $\vec{E}_{inside}=0$ : Not true under dynamic conditions
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Electrolytes
- **NaCl Ionic compounds** - $Na{\rightarrow}Na^{+} + e^{-}$ - $Cl + e^{-}{\rightarrow}Cl^{-}$
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Insulators and Semiconductors
- **Insulators** - Tightly bound electrons. - $E_{inside}$ need not be zero - **Semiconductors** - Metals Electrostatics
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Dynamic Condition
- **Charge pump** - No internal electric field will be created. - $E_{int}$ = 0 - Hence charge flow current.
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Direction of Current
- Direction of flow of positive charge - $I$ has a direction but is a scalar - $\frac{dQ} {dt}$ = I - Q = through a surface - = $\int {Idt}$
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Current Density
- **Current Density is a vector** - |J| = $\frac{I}{Area}$ - Since $\vec{J}$ is a vector, we need to give a direction - $\overrightarrow{d S}$ : a direction perpendicular to the cross section - $\vec{J}$ : In the direction of current flow - $\vec{J}.\vec{dS}$ > 0 - For positive current
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Electrostatic Condition
- No electric field. - Thermal velocity $\sim$ ${10^6}$ m/s - $\vec{E}_{inside}=0$ - Elastic collision - Velocities of different electrons are uncorrelated. - $\frac{1}{N} \sum_{i=1}^N\left\langle\vec{v}_i\right\rangle=0 $ - Average velocity of the collection of electrons is Zero.
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Dynamic Conditions
- $\vec E_{inside} \neq 0$. - Electrons are accelerated - The collection of electrons would move in a direction opposite to $\vec{E}$
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Drift Velocity
- All electrons within a volume AL will pass through that right face - n = electron density - Q = (en)LA - e = Magnitude of electron charge = 1.6 x $10^{19}$ c |J|= $ \frac{Q}{A t} = e n \frac{L}{t} = en v_\alpha $ - ${\vec{J}=-e n \vec v_\alpha} $
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