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Author: James S. Walker

Publisher: PEARSON

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Chapter 21, Problem 96GP

Three resistors ( R , 1 2 R , 2 R ) are connected to a battery. (a) If the resistors are connected in series, which one has the greatest rate of energy dissipation? (b) Repeat part (a), this time assuming that the resistors are connected in parallel.

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