{"id":117353,"date":"2015-08-21T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=f1215f82f87dea17945a51ff6b385531"},"modified":"2015-08-21T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T23:00:00","slug":"an-unsolved-electric-circuit-a-common-misconception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=117353","title":{"rendered":"An unsolved electric circuit: a common misconception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a number of theories in circuit analysis, little is known about the behaviour of ideal equal<br \/>\nvoltage sources in parallel, connected across a resistive load. We neither have any theory that can<br \/>\npredict the voltage source that provides the load current, nor is there any method to test it<br \/>\nexperimentally. In a series of experiments performed on 100 students, it was found that this circuit<br \/>\nis often misunderstood on symmetry grounds. This paper addresses this issue by showing how different<br \/>\ncircuit analysis methods fail to provide an answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a number of theories in circuit analysis, little is known about the behaviour of ideal equal<br \/>\nvoltage sources in parallel, connected across a resistive load. We neither have any theory that can<br \/>\npredict the voltage source that provides the load&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-117353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}