Kirchhoff's Rules When applying Kirchhoff's rules, one of the essential steps is to mark each resistor with plus and minus signs to label how the potential changes from one end of the resistor to the other. The circuit in the drawing contains four resistors, each marked with the associated plus and minus signs. However, one resistor is marked incorrectly. Which one is it? a. R1 b. R2 c. R3 c. R4

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Margaret Jimenez

14 July, 12:26

Kirchhoff's Rules When applying Kirchhoff's rules, one of the essential steps is to mark each resistor with plus and minus signs to label how the potential changes from one end of the resistor to the other. The circuit in the drawing contains four resistors, each marked with the associated plus and minus signs. However, one resistor is marked incorrectly. Which one is it? a. R1 b. R2 c. R3 c. R4

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Brandon Benton · Answer 1

d. R4

Explanation:

Generally, the flow of current is always from the positive sign to the negative sign. In the resistors R1, R2, and R3, the direction of flow of current is from the positive sign to the negative sign. However, in the resistor R4, the direction of the flow of current is different from the conventional method. Therefore, the resistor R4 is marked wrongly.