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What is the difference on microscopic level between electric current and heat current(conduction)?
Please understand my question more deeplyvanhees71 said:Electric current describes a transport of electric charge and the heat current a transport of heat energy.
I am not talking about those trivial stuffCharles Link said:It may be of interest that with electric current, there is a flow of charged particles, (electrons in the direction opposite the current flow), and the result is magnetic fields are produced (Biot-Savart), and capacitor plates can become charged.
With heat current, there is no overall transport of particles. It is simply a flow of the kinetic energy.
It doesn't matter. Sorry for bothering you.vanhees71 said:Then you have to more clearly express your question :-).
It seems like a good question you asked. Without the details of the "trivial stuff", there perhaps isn't much difference between electric current flow and energy flow.zb23 said:I am not talking about those trivial stuff
Please put more effort into your question. The answer you got was the answer to the question you asked. We cannot read your mind, so we don’t know what deep question you are asking unless you put in the effort to formulate it clearly and write it down. All we can do is respond to what you write. We are physicists, not psychics.zb23 said:Please understand my question more deeply