Tuesday 5 November 2019

theory - Current divider rule calculation issue


I'm doing the exercises from Wisc-Online. This one


I think they are really great to learn and practice and have already done a bunch of their practical trainings. But here I'm starting to be crazy. I need to calculate \$I_{r1}\$


Here's the schema :


schematic


simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab


According to their lesson :



\$I_{Rx} = \dfrac{R_{T}}{R_{x}} \times I_{T}\$


So :


\$I_{R1} = \dfrac{R_{1} \parallel R_{2}}{R_{1}} \times I_{T}\$


With values :


\$I_{R1} = \dfrac{\dfrac{1}{\cfrac{1}{5000}+\cfrac{1}{10000}}}{\dfrac{1}{5000}} \times 3mA\$


\$I_{R1} = 50000mA\$


But the answer should be 2mA


What's wrong in my formula ? :'(



Answer



Sorry... I just figured out what was wrong... It's not :



\$I_{R1} = \dfrac{\dfrac{1}{\cfrac{1}{5000}+\cfrac{1}{10000}}}{\dfrac{1}{5000}} \times 3mA\$


But :


\$I_{R1} = \dfrac{\dfrac{1}{\cfrac{1}{5000}+\cfrac{1}{10000}}}{5000} \times 3mA\$


And in that case I've got the correct answer.


Sorry.


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