Calculating Electron Strike Rate in an X-Ray Tube at 50mA Current

[theCandyman]

I'm ignoring the template because I don't think it's appropiate for the help I want.

The problem I'm given:
How many electrons per second strike the target in an X-ray tube operating at a current of 50mA?

First off, if this is an X-ray tube, where are these electrons coming from, the target? And how why is current for photons measured in amperes? I thought there needed to be charge for there to be current.

 

[Dick]

First off, maybe you should look up "X ray tube". The electrons are accelerated in the tube then hit a target generating the x-rays. That is the current referred to.

 

[Kurdt]

An X-ray tube is basically a discharge tube (i.e. a neon or fluorescent light) with a tungsten plate at one end acting as an annode. Electrons travel across a vacuum with high energy and excite tungsten atoms which then emit X-rays when they return to ground level. This question therefore has nothing to do with X-rays but is mainly an electronics question. What relation do you know that links current and charge, and what do you know of the charge on an electron?