Understanding Voltage Dividers: Polarity and Voltage Reduction

Jewish_Vulcan · Jan 17, 2015

What polarity does the output of a voltage divider have?, do the resistors only decrease the original voltage?

Bystander · Jan 17, 2015

Are resistors active or passive components?

Jewish_Vulcan · Jan 17, 2015

Bystander said:

Are resistors active or passive components?

They are passive because they do not produce energy. Why?

Bystander · Jan 17, 2015

Is a passive component going to do anything to the polarity of the circuit?

sophiecentaur · Jan 17, 2015

Jewish_Vulcan said:

What polarity does the output of a voltage divider have?, do the resistors only decrease the original voltage?

Have you looked at the theory / equation for a Voltage divider (potential divider)? What gave you the impression that the PD could change polarity if the reference zero is the same for input and output?

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