How Fast Does Electricity Travel Through Water

How Fast Does Electricity Travel Through Water?

Its about 300 million meters per second. The propogation of electric field, or electrical signalling using electrical signals in a wire is a bit slower. It can be anywhere from about 50% of c to 99% of c, depending upon the wire and insulation composition and construction.

How quickly does electricity travel?

Drift velocity, the average speed at which electrons travel in a conductor when subjected to an electric field, is about 1mm per second. It’s the electromagnetic wave rippling through the electrons that propagates at close to the speed of light.
Maya Lin-Takahashi

Maya Lin-Takahashi

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