Timeline for Why doesn't current pass through a resistance if there is another path without resistance?
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| Oct 31, 2018 at 10:17 | comment | added | Luaan | I wonder if such a situation could actually happen in practice in a superconductor circuit (at least to the limit of what current that superconductor can take); there might be extremely high currents on the "short-circuit" without damaging either the wire or the power supply, but then again, the short-circuit could have literally zero resistance (until the current rises too high). But I suppose there's little point in applying usual circuit logic ("everything has some resistance") to a superconductor :P | |
| Oct 28, 2018 at 23:38 | history | answered | Sam Spade | CC BY-SA 4.0 |