Re: Effect of the supply internal resistance

Rich wrote:
"Greg Neill" <gneillRE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Rich wrote:

+---------+--E2 = 0.1V
| |
[10R] R2 |
| |
+---E1
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[90R] R1 |
| [1R]
+--Ebat |
|+ |
[BAT] |
| |
| |
| |
+---------+


BAT is suppossed to be a device with zero resistance. So, you can
erroniously conclude there is 10V across 1R, thinking one part of 1R is
at
ground.

No, you can't, because BAT is a device that is *defined* to have
a voltage potential difference across it of 10.1V . You cannot
arbitrarily choose to recognize and disregard this on a whim when
you analyze the circuit.

The voltage stated is a voltage *reference to ground*. One end of 1R
is + 10V above ground or the negative terminal that's for sure. But in
fact
the other side of 1R is *not* connected to ground at all through a zero
resistance, so there is not + 10V across R1. This shows how careful one
must
be when associating a zero resaistance value to some ideal component. I
must
be careful in doing that.

What's to be careful about? The circuit plainly shows the 1R resistor
connected to the battery + terminal at one end, and R1 at the other.
Nowhere in sight is there a hint of a direct connection of the 1R
resistor to ground (which by common convention is taken to be the
negative terminal of the battery for a simple circuit like this).



+-----------+--- 10V
| |
| [R1]
[1R| |
| |
| |
[BAT] [R2]
| |
| |
+-----------+
|
GND

But, when I drew the circuit, BAT and 1R is an equivalent circuit for a
battery. Consisting of a perfect battery (BAT) and an internal resistance
(1R).

Face value you want to say, hey if BAT is a perfect battery with zero
resistance, there's 10V across 1R.

No, because then the 1R would be in parallel with BAT, not in
series as is drawn. You don't get to arbitrarily assign the
stated potential of the voltage source to another passive
component (the internal resistance).

Of course that is not true. It's just one
of these issues you get when dealing with perfect components in series
with
resistance.

Sorry, but it's not a common problem. You seem to have your own
unique set of confusions that lead to such inferences.

10v is just a statement that that point is 10V above a refrence
point. And there really is not a zero resistance across BAT. It's mixing a
fiction with reality. The equivalent circuit of a batttery is a fiction.

For all intents and purposes the BAT component has no resistance
associated with it. The resistance of the "real" battery is
lumped into the 1R resistor. Any circuit analysis that is
performed on this circuit *must* consider the potential difference
across the battery.

Note also that when you eventually come to analyse AC circuits
that also have DC sources in them, the DC sources *can* look
like short circuits (zero resistance) to the AC signal components.
The +Vcc voltage supply in an audio amplifier circuit, for
example, will "look" like a ground every bit as much as the actual
DC ground does to the audio signal.


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