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You may be surprised to learn that electrons flow through a typical copper wire much slower than a turtle walks. Each wire that conducts a flow of electrons, producing usable electric current, is composed of billions of atoms. To move along it, the electrons have to traverse these atoms, randomly zig-zagging their way as they do, resulting in the net flow rate, called “drift velocity,” in a given direction being quite slow. How slow exactly?...

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http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/487997/Bertie-attempts-to-break-world-s-fastest-tortoise-record

http://resources.schoolscience.co.uk/CDA/16plus/copelech2pg3.html

http://www.domino-tim.de/index.php/en/world-records

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drift_velocity

http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae69.cfm

http://seaperch.mit.edu/science_electricity.php

http://web2.0calc.com

https://www.uu.edu/dept/physics/scienceguys/2001Nov.cfm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_racing

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