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In an analogy between traffic flow and electric current, what would correspond to the charge, Q? What would correspond to the current, I?

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In analogy to traffic flow, the charge QQ is analogous to the individual cars that make up the traffic flow. Since current is defined as the number of passing charges per given unit of time, current II is then analogous to the rate of traffic flow.

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