The science contained in copper cable 10

Greetings friend, with another installment of science, in previous publications I have addressed very interesting topics of electric current, intensity, magnetic field, but it is very fascinating to know how current travels in a simple cable, considering that the energy that is produced during the displacement of The electrons through the cable is what generates electricity, but my friend readers, surprisingly, the speed, which makes it unique, is that they acquire these electrons in a common copper cable, it has been shown that it is less than 1 millimeter per second, since We have a reference, as I would say, its uniqueness is the way light travels in a vacuum, it is 299,792,458 meters per second, that speed is madness itself, I just wonder if the body can withstand traveling at that speed.

Continuing in this order of ideas, my reader friends, it is necessary to know that the electric current is the flow of charge between two points, assuming a conductive material, but we really do not know much about the properties of the copper cable, for my study I have one number 10 , I share the following information AWG Multipolar No. 10 copper cables with temperatures up to 30 °C, where the section of the cable mm² is also 5.26, Electric charge in Ampere (Number of wires) is 30, for more singular cases The solid wire with a diameter of 10 thhn is 1/2.59 mm, where or whose diameter of the 10-gauge braided cable is 19/0.58 mm, we already have the reference on this type of cable widely used in our homes, with some standards of section in mm2 of average current consumption for the case of 10.

The chemical formula of copper is Cu with atomic number 29, Atomic mass 63,546 u, Electrons per level 2, 8, 18, 1, Electronegativity 1,9 (Pauling scale), but what makes it unique, my friend, is that it is very used as a conductor is due to these two properties: electrical conductivity 58.108 × 106 S/m and thermal conductivity 400 W/(K m), at the level of physics, my friend readers, why this metal became known in the world of electricity Thanks to the invention of the electric generator in 1831 by Faraday, copper became a metal again on an industrial scale. The other side of copper, this metal can also be seen in Electronic configuration of the copper atom in nature, there are two stable isotopes: 63Cu and 65Cu, unknown to this nature in the field of science.

Electronic configuration of the copper atom

Well reviewing previous topics, where if we know that the electric current is the flow of charge between two points of a conductive material, in our case copper number 10, as we also remember that the current intensity (I), the which circulates through a conductor is the amount of charge (q), which my friend crosses a certain section of said conductor per unit of time (t) or as a function of time intervals, this is measured in amperes (A). Well now we have the following exercise:

Now not everything is left here, we already obtained the value, which my reader friends represent, the total charge that circulates is q= 6.3 C, and the charge of an electron is qe= 2.8 10-^19 C, we must calculate the number of electrons ne that will have circulated with these two data.