In a?direct current?

(DC) circuit, current flows in one direction only, and

one pole is always negative and the other pole is always positive.
Electrical polarity?(positive and negative) is the direction of current flow
in an?electrical circuit.?
Current?flows from the positive pole (terminal) to the negative pole.?
?Electrons?flow from negative to positive.

In an?alternating current?(AC) circuit the two poles alternate between

negative and positive and the direction of the current
(electron flow) reverses periodically.

Polarities

All voltages and currents have polarity as well as magnitude.

In a series circuit, there is onlyone current, and its polarity is from
the negative battery terminal through the rest of the circuitto the positive
battery terminal. Voltage drops across loads also have polarities.
The easiest wayto find these polarities is to use the direction of the
electron current as a basis. Then, where theelectron current enters the
load, the voltage is negative (Figure 31).
This holds true regardlessof the number or type of loads in the circuit.
The drop across the load is opposite to that of thesource.
The voltage drops oppose the source voltage and reduce it for the other loads.
This isbecause each load uses energy, leaving less energy for other loads.