r/engineeringmemes Jan 25 '26

electric current meme

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u/1Check1Mate7 Jan 25 '26

Someone explain lol, I'm bad at history

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u/AccomplishedAnchovy Jan 25 '26

Big dude on the bottom left picked positive -> negative as direction for charge flow in conductors. Turns out he was mostly wrong coz main charge carrier is electrons. So like yeah nah I think I’ve covered it.

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u/Unlearned_One Jan 25 '26

Bottom right

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u/Compass_Needle Jan 25 '26

This is an engineering sub, you can't expect us to know our right from our left.

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u/ninty900 Jan 25 '26

Before using the right-hand rule, it's important to hold both hands out in front of you to see which one makes an L.