{"id":54,"date":"2021-07-03T19:42:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T19:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/black\/series-parallel-interactive-problem\/step-7\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T18:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:42:12","slug":"step-7","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/black\/series-parallel-interactive-problem\/step-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Step 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are two more steps to finding the whole-circuit equivalent resistance, R<sub>eq<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Complete the steps, drawing a new circuit diagram each time you replace resistors with their equivalent resistor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you have a circuit that only contains the battery and R<sub>eq<\/sub>, you can use Ohm&#8217;s Law to find the current that flows through R<sub>eq<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"647\" src=\"https:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/black\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/series-parallel-4-1024x647.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58\" style=\"width:465px;height:293px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/black\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/series-parallel-4-1024x647.png 1024w, https:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/black\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/series-parallel-4-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/black\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/series-parallel-4-768x485.png 768w, https:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/black\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/series-parallel-4.png 1149w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><code><div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-13\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"13\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameBorder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"answer-sp-4\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/black\/series-parallel-interactive-problem\/step-6\/\">Back<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/black\/series-parallel-interactive-problem\/step-8\/\">Next<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two more steps to finding the whole-circuit equivalent resistance, Req. Complete the steps, drawing a new circuit diagram each time you replace resistors with their equivalent resistor. When you have a circuit that only contains the battery and Req, you can use Ohm&#8217;s Law to find the current that flows through Req.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":35,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-54","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/black\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/black\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/black\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/black\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/black\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/black\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/black\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions\/140"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/black\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phy.sites.mtu.edu\/black\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}