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The average drift speed is the magnitude of the average velocity in the direction of the wire.
This average is the result of erratic and high-speed motions in all directions (see fig. 21-5) where the position of the electron changes rapidly in a short span of time, colliding with atoms within the wire.
The net rate of change of position along the wire will be relatively small (in the text, a hundredth of a centimeter per second), but in the zig-zag path full of collisions, instantaneous velocities of the electron are large in magnitude.
