Cecil wrote,

Richard Clark wrote:

On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 22:08:12 -0600, Cecil Moore
wrote:

forward ... current ... flowing toward
the source.

Uh-huh

Richard, do you actually believe that 60 Hz AC current flows the same
direction
all the time into your refrigerator? Wouldn't that make it DC? AC current
flows into the refrigerator for 1/2 cycle and flows out of the refrigerator
during the next 1/2 cycle. In the AC hot wire, AC current flows toward the
generator just as often as it flows toward the refrigerator. Every 8.333 mS,
it goes through a zero-crossing and changes direction.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp


No, Cecil, it's the charge that moves, not the current. The current is
just the rate at which the charge is moving at a particular time.
In a traveling current wave, the *value* of a current will move along a line
but the charge itself stays put and just oscillates. They sure put some
funny ideas in your head at that engineering school you went to.
73,
Tom Donaly, KA6RUH