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When a battery is connected to a closed circuit, charge flow in the circuit almost instantaneously. Why?

When a battery is connected to a closed circuit, charge flow in the circuit almost instantaneously because when electron flow in an conductor, the conductor have an electron drift velocity of 10-4 m/s i.e the velocity of electron is =4 m/s. Thus it appears that the charges flow almost instantaneously when a battery is connected.


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