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Starting electronics<br />

Figure 2.8 The two parallel resistors shown in the breadboard, with the meter in<br />

place to test their combined resistance<br />

Try the same circuit, but with unequal resistors this<br />

time, say, one of 10 k and the other of 1k5 (brown, green,<br />

red — shouldn’t you be learning the resistor colour code?).<br />

What is the overall resistance? You should find it’s about 1k3<br />

— neither one thing nor the other! So, what’s the relationship?<br />

Well, a clue to the relationship between parallel resistors<br />

comes from the fact that, in a funny sort of way, parallel is<br />

the inverse of series. So if we inverted the formula for series<br />

resistors we saw earlier:<br />

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