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MIT 8.02 Electricity and Magnetism, Spring 2002
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OpenStudy (vivek3461):
Help required in understanding fundamentals of electricity: Electric current always take the least resistance path. So in a parallel resistor network the current should flow only through the least resistance. Instead current gets divided between resistances. Can anyone explain the flaw in my understanding?
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OpenStudy (radar):
Your thinking is slightly flawed, but you are close, just change this sentence "So in a parallel resistor network the current should flow only through the least resistance. " To read: "So in a parallel resistor network the greater current should flow through the least resistance with the lesser flowing through the higher resistance.".
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