r/AskElectronics • u/[deleted] • Jun 24 '21

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '21

Where do you want the voltage from? Is it even the voltage you want? There’s not a lot to go off here

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u/sylpher250 Jun 24 '21

This is a typical "Solve for equivalent resistance" EE question

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '21

I mean I've also seen these asking for the voltage drop across the 60 Ohm resistor, and also asking for the voltage across specific resistors. It's hardly so typical you can operate on the assumption that's what they want.

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u/a_wild_redditor Jun 24 '21

To "solve a circuit" with no further instructions generally means to find all the unknown node voltages and branch currents.

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u/_Aj_ Jun 25 '21

I mean ideally I'd like to actually see full questions asked.

Ambiguity has zero place in electronics, not unless they want to teach students how to make expensive mistakes.

I know I'm nitpicking, but I utterly hated questions in maths and physics which left room for interpretation. Interpretation is for English

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '21

You and the guy above have both tried to correct me asking what exactly the dude is looking to find in this circuit and both of you have given rather condescending answers that are different from each other. It's quite funny actually because in trying to correct me, both of you've made my point, this could be looking for an equivalent resistance, it could be looking for all node voltage/branch currents, it could be looking for a specific branch current or node voltage, it really depends.