Okay, I think I understand what you were saying in your first post - I wanted my equations to be for a parallel circuit, but the ones I'd been using were for a series circuit. (I asked a third (!) prof yesterday, and he kindly pointed this out to me. I don't know why the first two didn't spot...
Sorry? Thanks for your help, unique_pavadrin, but I don't quite understand. I thought the lights had to be put in a parallel configuration in order to keep all of them from going out if one went out. If I remember correctly, if the lights are in series, the current has to travel through each...
Power needed to light NYC? (Circuits! Please help.)
Hi there. I have a question from my physics lab. We're supposed to write a paper about the war of currents between Edison and Tesla/Westinghouse, and part of this involves estimating "the magnitude of the design problem." The actual...