Definition of current (18-1)

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Current in a circuit

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Review

The current in a circuit like that in Figure 182 equals the rate at which charge flows past any point in the circuit. In particular, if an amount of charge $\Delta{q}$ moves past a certain point in a time $\Delta{t}$ , the current $i$ is