Timeline for How do I prove to my physics teacher that adding a battery in parallel doesn't double the current?
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| Nov 4, 2018 at 19:33 | history | edited | MichaelK | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 13, 2018 at 21:27 | comment | added | Acccumulation | @Transistor The battery is not the proximate cause of the current. The battery creates a voltage drop across the resistor. The voltage drop draws current through the resistor. The resistor supplies a current to the battery as much as the battery supplies one to the resistor; take either out of the circuit, and there's no current. The current is a property of the circuit as a whole, not an attribute of the battery. | |
| Feb 9, 2018 at 19:36 | comment | added | Transistor | Your first line does not read correctly. The battery is, of course, supplying current when connected to the resistor. Your third sentence is probably what you are trying to say. | |
| Feb 9, 2018 at 13:47 | comment | added | Alnitak | 1A each approximately | |
| Feb 9, 2018 at 9:05 | history | answered | MichaelK | CC BY-SA 3.0 |