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Hurry And here's your shmoop du jour Brought to you

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by electrical resistance and not the resistance You had toe

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whatever that weird casserole was last night All right check

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the following diagram right here Oh my yeah The circuit

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diagram above has a battery of the vault And two

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resisters are one and our two in parallel The equivalent

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resistance of the circuit is ten homes and a battery

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contains twenty volts If the current across our one is

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zero point five amperes what is the current across our

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too Uh you're a potential answers on piers Well when

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we're dealing with circuits like this we need to remember

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kirchoff junction rule with states When we come to a

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junction in the road Always take the path less travelled

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Wait Sorry That's Robert frost junction rule and that's A

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different part of shmoop Okay Anyway kurt chops junction role

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means that the total current coming into a circuit junction

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equals the total current coming out of that junction that's

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Because the law of conservation of electric charge which states

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that charge can't be created or destroyed in a closed

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system So answer this question We first need to figure

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out the total amps that we're dealing with and for

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that we'll use homes law will owns law states that

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voltage equals amps times resistance way have the voltage and

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we have the resistance right here and here so let's

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just plug in the numbers Now we know that in

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one of the resisters that current is point five names

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since the current bullets resistors has to equal two amps

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The current resistor too has to be one point Five

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amps still a correct answer Just see remember A closed

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system means that the total charge can't change no matter

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how it's divided up And that weird casserole stayed the

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same too even though we tried to mask it with

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salad dressing The dog seemed to like it though but 00:01:54.595 --> [endTime] will she likes everything

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