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Question
Define electric current. What is the SI unit of electric current.
Solution
Electric current is the flow of electric charges (called electrons) in a conductor such as a metal wire and its magnitude is the amount of electric charge passing through a given point of the conductor in one second.
i.e. I = Q/t
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