Does current flow from positive to negative or from negative to positive?

Answer 1

Under the most common usage:
#color(white)("XXX")#current flow is from positive to negative.

The majority of electrical engineers continue to hold the belief that excess change flows from the positive terminal to the negative terminal; this belief is purely based on historical usage.

It's true that electrons flow from a negative to a positive charge.

It is safer to use current flow, which means positive to negative, unless you have a compelling reason to disagree with the antiquated engineering viewpoint.

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Answer 2

Carson Alexander

Current flows from positive to negative.

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Answer from HIX Tutor

When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.