You have a cube, and each vertex is connected to each of the other seven vertices via resistors.
What is the effective resistance between any two vertices (in ohms)?
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If an electrical network is created using the complete graph K n , with 1 Ω resistors on each edge, then the effective resistance R n between any two vertices is the same (by symmetry), and the effective graph resistance of K n is n − 1 , so that ( 2 n ) R n = n − 1 which means that R n = 2 n − 1 . In this case ( n = 8 , with 1 k Ω resistors), we see that the effective resistance is 8 2 × 1 0 0 0 = 2 5 0 Ω .