Question

What is the relationship between the direction of current and direction of electron flow in a current-carrying wire?

Answer 1

Classical current flows in the opposite direction (positive to negative) to the electron flow (negative to positive).

Answer 2

Explanation :

The direction of current flow is in opposite direction to that of the direction of electron flow.

Electric current is defined as the electric charge per unit time. Simply it is the flow of electrons in a circuit. When an electric potential is applied in a circuit, the current moves from the positive terminal of a battery to the negative terminal.

But the electrons travel from negative to the positive terminal i.e in the direction opposite to that of current flow.