Physics of electric current
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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
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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
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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 vibration 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
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     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.
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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.
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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.

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