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Which of the following statements about electric current is/are correct?
1. Electric current is the rate of flow of charge.
2. Outside the cell, conventional current flows from the negative terminal to the positive terminal.
1. Electric current is the rate of flow of charge.
2. Outside the cell, conventional current flows from the negative terminal to the positive terminal.
- A. 1 only
- B. 2 only
- C. Both 1 and 2
- D. Neither 1 nor 2
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Answer: (A) 1 only
Current I = Q/t, so statement 1 is correct. By convention current flows from the positive to the negative terminal outside the battery, opposite to the drift of electrons, so statement 2 is wrong.
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