In a simple series circuit consisting of a battery and three identical resistors labeled , , and in series, at which point in the circuit is the electric current the largest: before the first resistor, between the first and second resistor, between the second and third resistor, or after the third resistor?
24. Electric Force & Field; Gauss' Law
Electric Charge
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