scholarly journals A new understanding of the origin of electric current

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 591-595
Author(s):  
Wei Fan

Because charge, current, resistance, and voltage are understood based on the perspective of electricity, they can describe various electrical phenomena well, but they cannot explain their origins. Therefore, this article attempts to propose a new understanding of these phenomena from the perspective of mechanics to obtain a feasible way of explaining their origin and to solve problems that cannot be explained from the perspective of electricity. Specifically, this paper attempts to explain the origin of electric charge to obtain a new understanding of the origin of current and to obtain a new understanding of voltage and resistance by explaining the origin of current. Finally, from the perspective of mechanics, the origin of charge can be understood as a manifestation of electron momentum, the origin of current can be understood as a momentum flow, the origin of resistance can be understood as a momentum resistance, and the origin of voltage can be understood as a potential pressure (potential difference) of electron orbital potential. This new understanding of the origin of current from a mechanical perspective can provide a new theoretical explanation for high-temperature superconductivity.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Fan

Abstract This article attempts to provide a feasible understanding of electromagnetics from the perspective of mechanics. Among them, from the perspective of mechanics, charge can be understood as a form of electron momentum; electric current can be understood as a momentum flow; resistance can be understood as a momentum resistance of electrons; voltage can be interpreted as the potential pressure or energy level difference of the electron orbital potential; the electric field can be understood as a manifestation of the magnetic field of the current element. Finally, this article proposes a new understanding of some basic concepts of electromagnetics from the perspective of mechanics.


According to the most modern view, as enunciated by Professor J. J. Thomson in one of his recent works,* the phenomenon known as the Electric Arc is explained on the assumption that the positive and negative electrodes emit respectively positively and negatively electrified corpuscles or ions, which, under the influence of electric repulsion, travel across the space occupied by the arc and bombard the electrode opposite to the one from which they have been emitted. It is further supposed that the electric current is itself conveyed by these ions, and that the high temperature of the electrodes is produced by their bombardment. About a year ago it occurred to the writer that it should be possible to test the correctness of, at any rate, some portion of this theory by deflecting—by means of a magnet—either the positive or the negative ions into a Faraday cylinder placed with its aperture just touching the centre of the arc, in a manner somewhat similar to that adopted by Perrin, for demonstrating the electric charge carried by cathode rays. The experiment was tried, but it was found that no definite results could be obtained, owing to the erratic behaviour of the arc, which proved very unmanageable, and preferred to divide itself into two arcs between the carbon electrodes and the exterior of the Faraday cylinder, which was rapidly destroyed by fusion.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Fan

Abstract This article attempts to provide a new analogy understanding of some conceptual foundations of electromagnetics from the perspective of mechanics to satisfy childhood curiosity. Among them, from the perspective of mechanics, charge can be understood as a form of electron momentum; electric current can be understood as a momentum flow; resistance can be understood as a momentum resistance of electrons; voltage can be interpreted as the potential pressure or energy level difference of the electron orbital potential; the electric field can be understood as a manifestation of the magnetic field of the current element.


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