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What is electric current? Charge, circuits and Q = It

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Key ideas

  1. Current is the rate of flow of charge around a circuit.

  2. Charge is measured in coulombs (C) and current in amperes (A).

  3. Charge flow = current × time, or Q = I t, with the time in seconds.

  4. In a single closed loop the current is the same at every point.