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Give the definition of electric current and define its unit.

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An electric cuttent means rate of flow of electric charge. That means, the net quantity of an electric charge glowing through any cross section of conductor is defined as electric current.
In SI system, the unit of current is coulomb/ second (c/s). It is also represented n Ampere(A).

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