Mustang Sally just finished restoring her 1965 Ford Mustang car. To save money, she did not get a new battery. When she tries to start the car, she discovers that the battery is dead and she needs a jump start. While unhooking the jumper cables, the positive and negative cables almost touch and a spark jumps between the ends of the cables. This spark is caused by the movement of electrons through the air between the battery terminals. In what direction are the electrons traveling?

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Jaliyah Parsons

24 September, 18:20

Mustang Sally just finished restoring her 1965 Ford Mustang car. To save money, she did not get a new battery. When she tries to start the car, she discovers that the battery is dead and she needs a jump start. While unhooking the jumper cables, the positive and negative cables almost touch and a spark jumps between the ends of the cables. This spark is caused by the movement of electrons through the air between the battery terminals. In what direction are the electrons traveling?

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Helen Hanna · Answer 1

the electron jump goes from the negative terminal to the positive terminal

Explanation:

In a battery the energy is produced by a chemical reaction, which accumulates electrons in a terminal, called a negative terminal, but by convention the current goes from the positive to the negative terminal.

We can see from this explanation that the negative wire is the one with an excess is electrons, so the electron jump goes from the negative terminal to the positive terminal