Don't resist it!

The cube in the figure is made of 12 wire segments of 1 Ω 1\Omega resistance each.

Find the overall resistance between vertices A A and B B .


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The answer is 0.833.

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2 solutions

Gabriel Chacón
Feb 2, 2019

  • Use the symmetry of the system to find the relationship between the different intensities.

  • Calculate the voltage drop between A A and B B choosing any of the possible paths: V = 1 I + 1 1 2 I + 1 I = 5 2 I V=1\cdot I+1\cdot \frac{1}{2}I+1\cdot I=\frac{5}{2}I

  • The overall resistance is the quotient between this voltage and the total intensity, which is 3 I 3I :

R = 5 2 I 3 I = 5 6 Ω R=\dfrac{\frac{5}{2}I}{3I}=\boxed{\dfrac{5}{6}\,\Omega}

Label the cube circuit as shown in the left figure. By symmetry, the three vertices adjacent to A A , C C' , C C'' , and C C''' have the same voltage with respect to A A and B B . Therefore, C C' , C C'' , and C C''' can be considered as a point C C . Similarly, the three vertices adjacent to B B , D D' , D D'' , and D D''' can be considered as a point D D . Then the equivalent circuit of the cube circuit is as the right figure. And the resultant resistance between A A and B B is given by:

R A B = 1 1 1 + 1 1 1 1 1 1 + 1 1 1 = 1 3 + 1 6 + 1 3 = 5 6 0.833 Ω \begin{aligned} R_{AB} & = 1||1||1+1||1||1||1||1||1 + 1||1||1 = \frac 13 + \frac 16 + \frac 13 = \frac 56 \approx \boxed{0.833}\ \Omega \end{aligned}

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