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MIT 8.02 Electricity and Magnetism, Spring 2002 15 Online
OpenStudy (kainui):

So I have a circuit with: voltage of the entire circuit: 110V R1:7 ohms R2:11 ohms R3:15 ohms And I need to find the current flowing through each resistor. Here's the picture and I'll show what I have so far.

OpenStudy (kainui):

|dw:1343950088487:dw| From this I can tell that the total resistance of the circuit is 19.28 ohms and then from there I can find that the total current through the circuit is 5.7 amps. How do I find the individual current through each resistor? I know that voltage is constant across parallel resistors and the current through the two branches is equal to the total current. But when I try to apply ohm's law it's just not working out right. \[I _{total}=I _{1}+I _{2}\]

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