[esmi]

We're probably going to have to agree to disagree on this one as I just don't see the nuisance and I see some positive aspects to the existing convention which I highlighted previously.

The classic, and really intuitive, experiment that requires one to understand the movement of both the carriers and the charge at the same time is the Haynes Shockley experiment [1]. It has not been my experience that charge convention gets in the way of students interpreting this experiment.

For the vast majority of practical (artificial?) electronics, when designing one only needs to look at the movement of net charge. Passive sign convention (used by spice) is about the flow of charge, not carriers. Maxwell's equations don't even mention the carriers. It's not clear to me why one needs to visualise carriers to design circuits. In my experience (i.e. transmission lines) it can actually hinder students to consider the movement of carriers when designing a practical circuit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haynes–Shockley_experiment [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_sign_convention

[SiVal]

artificial: "made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally"