A compass for current

Excellent! This is exactly the way it is. You can follow the experiment in the video one more time. Watch once again the compass needles carefully!

The current always flows from one pole of the battery to the other. Thereby it always makes a closed circuit, so that one can speak of a current circuit .

The lamp is traversed by the current in a certain direction. It lights up. You can picture that as follows: The negative pole of the battery contains an especially large number of electrons while there is a shortage of electrons at the positive pole That is why the electrons are forced through the wire towards the lamp. The electrons flow through a wire into the lamp and out again through the other wire. Therefore the direction of the current is the same in the two wires next to the lamp and so the compasses point in the same direction.A magnetic field is being produced in exactly the same way around all wires.

What does it mean for the brain teaser that the current behind the light bulb flows in the same direction as before?


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