Voltage and Current Dividers
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When we have a voltage source and resistors connected in series, we can express the voltage across a resistor as a ratio of voltages and resistances, without ever knowing the current.
In the circuit above,
or
We can generalize this equation for number of resistances in series with the equation:
where is the voltage across the whole string of resistors.