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YT2095
August 30th, 2003, 5:56 AM
here is a question that we were asked in electronics class a few years ago, we`de just learned Ohms law. Non of us ever managed to work it out :( here goes.....

Imagine a cube made of (100 Ohm) resistors. so that would be a total of 12 identical resistors.
work out using ohms law, the resistance between the front left bottom corner, and the top right back corner.
A diagonal thing.

each edge is a 100 Ohm resistor.

I don`t think it`s possible myself using just ohms law, but would love to be shown either way, and certainly the answer! :)

Kedas
August 30th, 2003, 7:45 AM
different ways:
http://home.tiscali.be/kpmoerman/special/special.htm#cube

Obviouly the smart way is the one you were supposed to find. Easy when you know the answer. I didn't know it either when that problem was given to me.
(I burried myself under with star to triangle calculations)

YT2095
August 30th, 2003, 8:02 AM
Kedas, yer a diamond mate!!!
thnx a bunch for the data, I`ve added that url to my favorites too.
it`s no wonder we could never work it just being taught Ohms law :)

btw, I like the chaos circuit, we used to use something similar for white noise generators (for synths) using Zener Diode breakdown noise through an OP Amp :)
There`s a neat way using TTL shift registers too, I`ve lost the diag though.
cheers for the site again :)

deonm
July 4th, 2009, 1:41 AM
Hi

This was one of those things I always wanted to solve comprehensively.

See the attachment.

Regards
Deon