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andrevdh said:The total resistance of resistors in parallel can be calculated with
[tex]\frac{1}{R_p} = \frac{1}{R_1} + \frac{1}{R_2} [/tex]
this can be changed to
[tex]R_p=\frac{R_1R_2}{R_1 + R_2}[/tex]
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