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RE: Two statements in OP were left addressed.

Current doesn't flow back and forth, technically speaking. Current is a scalar quantity, it has no direction, it has no velocity, it's calculated according to amount of free electron flow, total charge per unit time. Only the free electrons move back and forth in an AC circuit. The picture of how electricity works is further complicated by adding the concept of Poynting vector and energy flux outside the conductor in electric and magnetic fields. Having said that we're stuck with common occurrence of term, "alternating current."


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