CURRENT (physics)

Is there anyone in your class you can ask?

I don't know. :-Z

So, new class - new semester - don't know anyone? Can you ask the teacher after or before your next class?

The drawing you have shows resistors in both series and in parallel.

Follow the line from the battery source. If you trace the path with your pencil point and it has to pass through more than one resistor to get from one side of the battery back to the other then the resistors it passes through are in series. If not then the resistors are in parallel.

Let's label your resistors:

R1 is your 10 ohm resistor
R2 is your 7 ohm resistor
R3 is your 3 ohm resistor
R4 is your 4 ohm resistor

If you follow along you can go from your bettery to R4, through R3 and return to the battery - these two are in series with each other.

If you start at the battery again and go through R1 you end up back at the other side of the battery so it isn't in series with any other.

R2 is identical to R1 (except for it's value) so it isn't in series either.

R1, R2 and the combination of R3+R4 are all in parallel with each other.

Is that enough to get you started??

Mit,

Whether a resister is diagonal or vertical or horizontal is irrelevant.

What is important is how they are connected-- the only two answers are is the connection "parallel" or "series". So to solve this problem we need to figure this out for each connection.

Let's start with the easy connection. The 4ohm resister and the 3Ohm resister-- are they connected in series or in parallel. (hint: You can more the 4ohm resister so it is next to the 3ohm resister without changing the way they are connected. This will not change the circuit at all.)

fishin has it right.
You might want to redraw the circuit to make it simpler since you are confused by the angle and horizontal

from postive to negative draw 3 lines

The first line has the 10 ohm resister
the second line has the 7 ohm
the third line has the 3 and 4 ohm in series

Now its easy to work backwards from it.
you can figure the total resistance for the 3 and 4 ohm being in series and that gives you your 3 parallel resistances.

Thanks a lot guys. I appreciate you helping me. Thanks again.! :-)

Re: CURRENT (physics)

The 7 ohm resistor's end points can be moved to make it more clear that it isn't diagonal, but in parallel with the 10 ohm one.