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The discussion focuses on calculating current and potential difference in a circuit involving an ideal battery with a voltage of 12.0 V, an ammeter resistance of 2.00 ohms, and a voltmeter resistance of 268 ohms. The user attempted to apply a previously successful method to a new problem but encountered difficulties. Key calculations involve determining the current through the resistor (R = 93.0 ohms) and the readings on the ammeter and voltmeter based on the total current and resistance relationships.

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Hello everyone, I'm suppose to find the current and potential difference, I did a smilar problem to this that Chi helped me on, and it worked out, i applied the same method but didn't work out right. Here is the question and under it is my work:

Question:
the ammeter and voltmeter resistances are 2.00 and 268 , respectively. Take E= 12.0 V for the ideal battery and R0 = 119 .

Picutre of Figure b: http://www.webassign.net/hrw/28-40b.gif

(a) If R = 93.0 what will the meters read for the two different connections (Figs. 28-40b)?
Figure B:

I = ?A
Potential Difference = ? V
work:
http://img463.imageshack.us/img463/111/lastscan8fp.jpg

Thanks!
 
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I only see one connection which is the one in our drawing. anyway, it looks like you pretty much solved it! You know the total I so you just have to find how much of it goes through the R and A (call that I1), and how much goes through V (I2, I1+I2 = I, remember that the I and resistance are inversly related). I1 would be the reading for the ammeter, and I1 times the total resistance of A and R is the reading for the voltmeter.
 

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