Tetrahedral Current

What will be the current ( i n in A m p e r e s Amperes ) flowing through a 2 V 2V battery if it is connected across any two vertices of a tetrahedral conductor having a resistance of 2 Ω 2 \Omega in each arm (i.e., between any two vertices)?


The answer is 2.

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Arghyanil Dey
Apr 10, 2014

The other two vertices are in same voltage.So the net resistance is (R/2+R/2)×R/2R=R/2 Where R=2ohm So that the current is 2amp

You're right....................... Why is it so? Can you explain?

Maharnab Mitra - 7 years, 2 months ago

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Let , consider a battery between any two vertices and take those as 1&2 and other two vertices as3&4. There is only 1 resistance between 1&3 as well as 1&4 and between 2&3 as well as 2&4. So voltage drop at 3&4 is same .So the resistance between 3&4 is cancelled. Let, take 3&4 as a point i.e.P . So there is 2 resistances which are in parallel between 1&P as well as 2&P.so the effective resistance between 1&2 via P is R (R/2+R/2=R)which is in parallel with one single resistance between 1&2. So the net resistance is R/2(R×R/2R=R/2)

Arghyanil Dey - 7 years, 2 months ago
Chew-Seong Cheong
Aug 17, 2014

Using the diagram of the question, let the 2 V 2V battery be connected to the bottom two vertices A A and B B . The five 2 Ω 2\Omega resistors on top form two triangles sharing an edge.

Convert one of the triangle or delta resistor circuit to wye or star circuit.

Each of the wye-resistor will have a resistance of 2 × 2 2 + 2 + 2 = 2 3 Ω \frac{2\times 2}{2+2+2}=\frac{2}{3}\Omega .

Now the equivalent resistance between A A and B B is:

R A B = 2 / / ( 2 3 + ( 2 3 + 2 ) / / ( 2 3 + 2 ) ) R_{AB}=2//\left(\frac{2}{3}+(\frac{2}{3}+2)//(\frac{2}{3}+2)\right)

= 2 / / ( 2 3 + ( 1 2 ) ( 8 3 ) ) \quad = 2//\left(\frac{2}{3}+(\frac{1}{2})(\frac{8}{3})\right)

= 2 / / ( 2 3 + 4 3 ) \quad = 2//(\frac{2}{3}+\frac{4}{3})

= 2 / / 2 = 1 Ω \quad = 2//2=1 \space \Omega

Therefore current through A A and B B = 2 V 1 Ω = 2 A =\frac{2V}{1\Omega}=2\space A

Anom Ahmed
Feb 12, 2014

The problem here is to find equivalent resistance.there are 6 line and 4 point. we can choose our cell to be in between any two point so there remains 5 lines and 5 resistance. The two adjacent (I mean lines which have different origin but same conclusion) line can be thought as 2 resistance in series . In this picture we can see there are only two of this kind of combination. that makes up 4 lines . the middle line connects the two combination. AND THE MIDDLE LINE WILL NOT CONTRIBUTE TO NET RESISTANCE BECAUSE THE VOLTAGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ITS 2 END IS EQUAL (AS i*r=constant). The rest you can calculate by yourself.

(A picture was badly needed. And also my English is bad... anyways tnx :) )

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