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Is it true that electric current is a vector quantity?


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a

True

b

False 

answer is B.

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Detailed Solution

The given statement is False.
Electric current is a vector because it has a magnitude and a direction. However, a vector always obeys the vector addition law. Electric currents are scalar because they do not obey it and instead follow algebraic addition. The SI unit of electric current is ampere denoted as A.
The correct statement would be that the electrical current is a scaler quantity.
 
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