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Equivalent RC circuit to a RRC circuit?

I'm in doubt about a situation that I've seen sometimes: imagine we have a resistor in parallel with a resistor and a capacitor in series. Since I don't know how to generate figures of circuits to ...
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Resistance of a copper wire [closed]

Resistance of a copper wire is 20ohm. If the diameter of the wire is 5mm and length 1ohm. Find the resistivity of the copper.
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Resistors in Parallel

From my book: "A length of wire is cut into five equal pieces. The five pieces are then connected in parallel, with the resulting resistance being 2.00 Ω. What was the resistance of the ...
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Is this series or parallel? [closed]

How do you find I? and please explain which resistors are in parallel and which are in series? ("M" and ">" are resistors) ...
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Capacitors and resistor in series and in parallel [closed]

In this circuit, are $R_1$ and $C_1$ in parallel and $C_2$ and $R_2$ in series? I have think that the currents that flows trought $R_1$ isn't the same that flows trought $C_1$ so, $R_1$ and $C_1$ ...
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Carbon resistor [closed]

a carbon resistor is used as a thermometer on a water day when the temperature is 10 degree Celsius the resistance of the carbon resistor is 270 ohms what is the temperature on a spring day when the ...
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how to find the diameter of this fuse? [closed]

A fuse blows if the current exceeds 1.0 A. It is made of material that melts at a current density of 620A/cm2. What is the diameter of the wire, assumed to have a circular profile, in the fuse?
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Parallel circuits - Overall resistance decreases with additional resistor

Let's say that there is a parallel circuit with two identical resistors in parallel with each other. If a third resistor, identical to the other two, is added in parallel with the first two, the ...
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Relationship between resistance and voltage drop

In a series or parallel circuit, if two bulbs have the same resistance, do they have the same voltage drops? The problem I am asking about is below. Do A, B, and C have the same voltage drops since ...
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Physical interpretation of y-intercept in a Current vs Voltage graph

So I collected current and voltage data from a simple circuit with a power source and a resistor, using a multimeter. I created a graph for this data using excel and got the y-intercept (which is ...
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Cable TV version of infinite ladder network [closed]

This is a problem in a college physics textbook, and its bugging me that I can't get it. The figure shows a circuit model for the transmission of an electrical signal, such as cable TV, to a large ...
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kirchhoff's law.Simple question [closed]

So far I calculated total resistance and it is 4.66 ohms and there is 12 volt voltage across them, what is the best way or HOW to calculate current for each resistor ?
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How to find the equivalent resistance for the following circuit? [closed]

How do you find the equivalent resistance for the above circuit, if current is entering via A and leaving via C? Can it be done by treating it like a wheatstone bridge?
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How do I solve the current of this resistor using Maxwell's Current Theorem?

I've been trying to solve this using the method the prof. taught us, and I happen to know the answer but I can't reach it no matter how many times I've tried. The circuit in question is below: I am ...
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Finding current using EMF & internal resistance

What exactly is the difference between internal resistance and resistance? This came up in the context of a homework problem I have been given: The circuit shown in the figure contains two ...
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As ISA Practical - Resistors in Parallel [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Current against the inverse of resistance graph, I = V/R +c How would you set up a circuit with a fixed resistor in parallel with a variable one. We are told to measure ...
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Internal resistance V=IR circuit question [closed]

I don't know how to resolve this problem. A complete circuit consists of a 18,0 V battery (internal resistance r) and a resistor R. The terminal voltage of the circuit is 15,8 V and the current is ...
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Does power from a resistor perform work or heat transfer?

Let's say I have a cylindrical piston filled with air and fitted with an electrical resistor. The resistor has a current going across it and a voltage for a certain amount of time. My system would be ...
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Measuring the Electromotive Force and Internal Resistance of a Battery?

Here is a problem that emerged some time ago: We needed to measure the emf(electromotive force) and internal resistance of a car battery. The only instruments were voltmeter and ammeter. ...
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What would be the effective resistance of the ladder of resistors having n steps

I'm a tutor. This is a high school level problem. In high school, every one have might have solved a problem of effective resistance of a ladder of resistors having infinite steps. Now the problem is ...
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Waveforms for a given ideal inverters circuit

I have the following circuit. All the inverters are ideal CMOS. I need to draw the waveforms for each point (A, B, D, E, Vo), given that waveform at input. What I want to ask is if what I did so ...