Calculating Electron Drift Time in Copper Wire: Density Question

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The density of mobile electrons in copper metal is 8.4 1028 m-3. Suppose that i = 7.5 1018 electrons/s are drifting through a copper wire. (This is a typical value for a simple circuit.) The diameter of the wire is 1.7 mm. In this case, about how many minutes would it take for a single electron in the electron sea to drift from one end to the other end of a wire 31 cm long?

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