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State the convention regarding the direction of flow of electric current?


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  1. Electric current is the flow of charge. Conventionally, in an electric circuit, the direction of the electric current is opposite to the direction of the flow of electrons.
  2. So the direction of conventional current is from positive to negative terminal of the conductor.

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