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RobusEtCeleritas t1_ixh7w52 wrote

What you're looking for is the Poynting vector.

It's pictured here for a DC circuit. The red arrows are the electric field, the green are the magnetic field, and the blue are the Poynting vector (the direction of power flow).

In the AC case, the red and green arrows change direction sinusoidally, but the blue vectors always point in the same direction; from the power source to the load.

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