Timeline for Which derivation of drift velocity is correct?

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S Feb 28, 2020 at 14:07	history	suggested	CommunityBot	CC BY-SA 4.0	Edited the answer
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S Feb 28, 2020 at 14:07
S Sep 17, 2019 at 14:14	history	suggested	Civil	CC BY-SA 4.0	just typos: 'prportional' to 'proportional', 'temprature' to 'temperature. (It says at least 6 characters, so I added colons before equations where they weren't to make it consistent)
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Jun 4, 2012 at 14:54	vote	accept	The-Ever-Kid
May 21, 2012 at 9:42	comment	added	Ron Maimon		@The-Ever-Kid: The Wikipedia article is describing the quantum Fermi drift-velocity, not this classical drift velocity you are talking about. It doesn't really need updating--- it is just talking about the random directional drift of electronic velocities in the thermal skin of width kT in the metal. This is a reasonable idea for electrons, but it isn't classical drift.
May 21, 2012 at 9:31	comment	added	The-Ever-Kid		could you update the wikipedia article for drift velocity
May 21, 2012 at 9:16	comment	added	Ron Maimon		@The-Ever-Kid: I am really sorry-- the first 29 lines were for you, I figured the rest might go over your head, but it's a good reference point for what you might want to learn. This stuff is not usually covered in any classes, even though it is major work of Einstein, but it is contained in some scattered literature, beginning with Einstein's classic 1905 paper. I hope you will be able to get some insight from the remainder of the answer, if not its for others.
May 21, 2012 at 9:10	comment	added	The-Ever-Kid		the first 29 lines were perfectly understandable to me but the modern physics that you started using later was beyond me (I'm in high school you know!)
May 21, 2012 at 8:55	history	answered	Ron Maimon	CC BY-SA 3.0