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"Series circuit" means one single conducting path between the terminals of the power

source.

The current through the conductor is the physical motion of electrons. Some

number of electrons enters the conductor at one end, some number of electrons

leaves the conductor at the other end, some number of electrons pass some point

along the conductor between the ends, etc.

The only way these numbers could be different would be for someone to punch a little

hole somewhere in the conductor, and either pump more electrons into the hole,

or else let some electrons leak out of the hole as they pass that point. If that's not

happening, and electrons are not being spontaneously created or destroyed in the

conducting material, then the number must be the same everywhere in it.

At a neighborhood park on a Summer day, you'll often see a long plastic tube

stretched out on the ground, with children crawling into one end and out the

other end. If there is no labor and delivery ward inside the tube, and no hidden

hole down into a coal-mine below, then the number of children that enter the

tube must be the same as the number that come out of the other end, and the

same number that pass any point along the length of the tube.

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