Adding Resistances and Capacitances in Introductory Electricity
Physics Education
2009-11-07 v2
Abstract
We propose a unified approach to addition of resistors and capacitors such that the formulae are always simply additive. This approach has the advantage of being consistent with the intuition of the students. To demonstrate our point of view, we re-work some well-known end-of-the-chapter textbook problems and propose some additional new problems.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0103069,
title = {Adding Resistances and Capacitances in Introductory Electricity},
author = {C. J. Efthimiou and R. A. Llewellyn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0103069},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
13 pages, LaTeX, uses additional packages, 7 eps figures; one comment added after the truncated-cone resistor