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So you think wire conductors in cables are directional? Think again...

Here is a very relevant discussion among physicists about the directionality...the way signal and electrons should flow... based on conductor orientation. Some esoteric, high-end manufacturers say they listen to each conductor to see which way the signal should flow for the best audio quality.

Read this discussion. Will it make you rethink what you’re being told and sold?

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/is-a-copper-conductor-directional.975195/
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clearthinker360 posts   

05-16-2021   
 6:24am    

" Electric charges typically flow as slowly as a river of warm putty. And in AC circuits, the moving charges don’t move forward at all, instead they sit in one place and vibrate."
    
Had Edgewound read a little farther down the page he would have read this:

The size of the wiggle

And about AC... how far do the electrons move as they vibrate back and forth? Well, we know that a one-amp current in 1mm wire is moving at 8.4cm per hour, so in one second it moves:

8.4cm / 3600sec = .00233 cm/sec

And in 1/60 of a second it will travel back and forth by

= .00233cm/sec * (1/60)
= .0000389cm
or around .00002 in.

This simple calculation is for a square wave. For a sine wave we’d integrate the velocity to determine the width of electron travel.

So for a typical AC current in a typical lamp cord, the electrons don’t actually "flow," instead they vibrate back and forth by about a hundred-thousandth of an inch.

http://amasci.com/miscon/speed.html


Charge movers = electrons.


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