Re: snack question

From: On-line Snack discussion (snaktalk)
Date: Wed Aug 14 2002 - 18:58:16 PDT


This can be a bit confusing because it's different depending on whether
you are talking in terms of conventional flow or electron flow. There's a
good explanantion at
http://www.rareearth.org/conventional_vs_electron_flow.htm

Nina Thayer
Snacktalk Moderator

>
> Hello,
>
> In the Snack called "Circles of Magnetism I," you write about the right =
> hand rule. You say that, in a battery, electric flow is from + to -. =
> But I have read that the flow is from - to +. Have I been teaching =
> this to my kids all wrong? =20
>
> Please help!
>
> By the way, this particular snack is great.
>
> Thanks,
> John =20
>
>



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