Does the current of a battery flow from negative terminal to positive terminal or is it reversed?
What are actually moving are electrons, which are negatively-charged particles. These flow from the negative terminal to the positive terminal. The “positive” and “negative” designations were set by Benjamin Franklin, who knew nothing of electrons. He tried to discern the direction in which electricity flowed by watching sparks, and he thought he discerned a consistent direction that sparks appeared to jump, and labeled the terminal that he thought seemed to be the source as “positive” and the terminal to which they seemed to jump as “negative”. In many circles, the convention is still followed of assuming that electricity flows from positive to negative. This is referred to as “conventional flow”, while the physically-correct opposite assumption is referred to as “electron flow”. Generally, electricians and similar low-level electrical workers tend to use conventional flow, while electron flow tends to be more widely used among the higher fields of electronics. It really doesn’t matte
