Tuesday, 30 July 2019

electricity - Why doesn't an electron accelerate in a circuit?


Why don't electrons accelerate when a voltage is applied between two points in in a circuit? All the textbooks I've referred conveyed the meaning that when an electron traveled from negative potential to positive potential, the velocity of the electron is a constant.


Please explain.




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