Physics
of electric current
Part 1.
What is
electric
current?
Professor
asked this
question
his
student.
The
student hesitated
and
blurted out: forgotten,
honestly,
I knew but
had
forgotten ....
It is a
pity -
the
professor said. You-were the only
person on
earth
who knew-what
is the electric current.
This joke
comes to
mind when you read
a modern
formulation:
an
electric current is
directed
movement of electrons.
This is
not quite so, there is
movement, that isn't
creating
the current.
The
mathematical formulation more precise,
but
it's not exatly true also.
At first
you need just
to
explain - what physical
characteristics
or processes
are
reliable witnesses to
the
current. In this
formulation
of the problem is no better
test
than
the "creation
of the
vortex magnetic field."
The
magnetic field creates an
electron
orbital
rotation
'energy-mass
(EM).
And then -
just
a property
of an
electron to align their
axis
of
symmetry along the line
of motion.
This
property is symbolically
reflected
in the
formulation of directional movement. Why
directed? -
Probably
so as not
to fall under
oscillatory
motion. But then why it's
wrong?
Because
the
movement is a relative
parameter,
which is meaningless
without
specifying the relative object to
the
reference. In fact, the movement of
electrons
in a conductor produces a current. Take in
the
hands the same
conductor
with
electrons, and move it
arbitrarily
directed-nothing happens! Electrons
move, but
there
isn't current.
And it's not all.
There is
a small trait
- to
the
orientation of the electron
should be
not just motion, but
accelerated
motion. Indeed, the force
arises
when
mass is accelerating.
I apologize to
readers
for
pedantry
-
it's no small thing. Mathematical record
does
not speak
on the
motion, it says
about the
change of charge, to be
exact, the change
of energy
in time
.
But
within
the cell
of
spatial electric charge (SEC) the pressure is
constant,
therefore,
the
electron energy is also constant
during
the period of orbital rotation
of EM
.
Consequently,
the current
of fixed
electron
is equal to zero, and
we
returned to the motion?
Yes,
and no.
The fact
that the
orientation of the axis of symmetry
of the
electron occurs only when
an
external local force working or
under the
effect of the electrical
tension
N.
That is,
the movement
needs
an
energy
cost. Then work
on the
movement of the electron
A = FdL
is
compensated by deceleration of
EM vibrations in the
period T, which lowers the
internal
kinetic
energy of the electron.
Power of
the current generated
by the
electron is equal to
.
This
implies that the
current
shows
the
electron energy loss
in
its motion, expressed
in the
change of potential for
the
period of oscillation of EM
.
The
ratio erroneously
called by
the people
as charge
that isn't
sensitive
to changes in energy.
The fact
that the
electron energy within
the
period transfers from
electric
to
magnetic
form
and forth.
Energy
storage is capacity of
electron
. The radius
of the
electron is changing inversely proportional
to its
energy, causing
potential
of the electron to be changed also.
.
Energy storage
does not
occur when an electron
moves
through space by changing the
bulk
density of the charges .
Such
movement is called
in the
physics as bias current.
It turns out that
this is
not
current, because
the
electron motion occurs
along with SEC cell. Here
it is
the
relative object of
movement! Not
local
force, but distributed
in space the sum
of forces effect on the
electron.
If group
of SEC cells is moving,
this group
isn't
being changed.
Consequently, the
current
is produced exclusively
in the
case of accelerated
motion, that violating the
energy
balance of the moving electron
with
respect to - the surrounding charges. This means
that
there is a measure of length,
on which
we can
judge the
current,
it is the parameter z
of grid
SEC. Now the formulation acquires
the
physical meaning of motion.
The motion of electrons
in metals
and semiconductors is
accures
with very low velocities
(a few
meters
per second), so in the
formula the electron
charge
can be
considered as constant.
At speeds
commensurable
with the speed of light
is
beginning to affect the volatility
of "charge" parameter ,
and this
formula is not
good.
.
Fig.1. The
illustration of
current structure
on
diverse
areas of
conduction.
Lets
return the reader to the section of semiconductors, the failures of the
current in a semiconductor (Fig. 1) are due to knock-out of electrons
moving along the vector of tension. Under
the action of a scalar pressure, and different values of bulk density
part
of the electrons in the semiconductor redistributed. For
a while the electrons moved perpendicularly to the line of tension.
The
flow of current is accompanied by energy losses of electrons. Losses
are expressed as the potential difference at the ends of the circuit .
The
energy source must replenish the energy of the electrons in the chain. The
amount of current is proportional to the velocity of the electrons and
their number. Unfortunately,
there is still no way to determine the number of free electrons in the
conductor. Uncertainty
between parameters this is the basic problem of the physical
description of the current. We
can give only the first correlating
factor
- the energy of nucleus
field.
The
intensity of this field is directly related to the mass number of a
chemical element. Therefore,
the volume density of charge of course depends on the volume density of
the substance. It
will take a long time to create a specific relationships
table,
taking into account the type and form of the atoms grid, as
well as the interference of the nuclear field for different materials.