6.1: Convection and Conduction Currents
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In practice, we deal with two physical mechanisms for current: convection and conduction. The distinction between these types of current is important in electromagnetic analysis.
The distinction between convection and conduction is important because Ohm’s Law (Section 6.3) – which specifies the relationship between electric field intensity and current – applies only to conduction current.