Discuss how electric current is able to flow?

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anonymous · Answer

Electricity has a "charge " on it which gives it potential energy. Anything that has potential energy, if given the chance, wants to get to a lower energy state, which is neutral. An analogy is if you have a bucket of water filled to the brim, it has potential energy in the height of the water above the table. If you dump it over the water doesn't stay in the bucket it goes to the lowest point possible to have zero energy left in it.

SO electricity does same thing. Those charges have potential energy and they are trying to find a lower energy spot to get rid of that excess energy they have. The electrons flow to the "ground" or neutral which has less energy than the charges have, and when they get to the ground they have no charge left.

So that path the charges take to get to a lower state of energy ( the ground) is why electric current flows