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Understanding Lewin's Circuit Paradox: Explained Simply and Clearly
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[QUOTE="alan123hk, post: 6818225, member: 638884"] I just saw the following clip on youtube [MEDIA=youtube]LGdN7rDB3XE[/MEDIA] It seems that many people are still interested in this topic. Here is the simple clear explanation I came up with, is there any error please ? [ATTACH type="full" alt="Circuit.jpg"]316811[/ATTACH] This means that voltmeter 2 is not measuring the potential difference produced by the charge accumulated on resistor R2, it is actually the voltage produced by the EMF minus the voltage drop across R1, so of course we cannot apply KVL to the outermost closed loop (including R1 and R2) and expect the sum of potential differences to be zero. The crux of the matter is that KVL should not be applied in this way. :smile: [/QUOTE]
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