Defining the electric current.

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Hello.
I have attached a file containing a detailed question regarding the definition of the electric current. I'll be glad if someone can help me clarify this issue.
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A is an area, so it can't be 1 divided by a length. You seem to be forgetting n and the fact that it isn't dimensionless.
 
willem2 said:
A is an area, so it can't be 1 divided by a length. You seem to be forgetting n and the fact that it isn't dimensionless.

Well, the problem is that I have read the summary I made for one of the lectures discussing the Hertzian dipole antenna, and [tex]\Delta L[/tex] just appeared the way I wrote it in the attached file. In fact, I clearly noticed what you had written before posting this message/thread, but I still try to figure out if I can define n or [tex]\Delta L[/tex] in different dimensions to get a correct expression for the electric current (I simply forgot to write some details down during the lecture and therefore now I try to understand what the lecturer meant..).
So what else could [tex]\Delta L[/tex] represent if I rule out the possibility of a length element?
thanks :confused: