Hello everyone!
Can anyone tell me why is my circuit shorted?
Thanks for your response. You mean that in the left path, as there are no resistors the current will prefer that path than the one with resistor on it? I thought about that, I just wanted to make sure my reasoning is correct and as this forum is called beginner's forum, I'm not afraid to ask stupid questions, even tho there are a few guys out there that would rather make fun than help.
Again thanks for your reply!
I have often found the only stupid questions are the ones that people DON'T ask.
Yes, your question was basic - extremely basic - and some people might not see it as a valid question. I admit I paused a minute before replying.
Your reasoning is correct .... and in the not-too-distant future, you might look back on this and realise how very basic and obvious the question was.
Don't worry too much about any of the responses here, just continue with your interest and please come back with more questions. Pretty soon you will be coming here with more interesting ones - and there are a lot of people that can and are more than happy to offer help.
I haven't said that there is someone that mocked somebody here, I just stated a fact. Now what I just can't handle is the comment that says that "I'm trolling because I ask this (stupid) question". I don't know if I have to remind I'm every single post that this is a BEGGINERS FORUM. Anyway, let's cut the drama.
Again, thanks for your help. Specially to the one who posted the image.
Have a good day.
Well.... so far the answers have been answering "HOW is the circuit shorted." Yes, there is a wire directly connecting the positive and negative ends of the voltage source. That's pretty obvious from the schematic. Painfully obvious in fact.
But we still don't know "WHY" the circuit is shorted. That is, why did the OP design the circuit that way, with the obvious short in it? What was the OP trying to achieve with this circuit? It seems clear to me that a non-functional circuit incorporating a direct short across the power supply probably wasn't the intended result.
Was probably part of a school exercise or class test
If in reality there is an ideal voltage source and you short it, it will burn your house down.
Was probably part of a school exercise or class test^ This.
When someone asks a quite basic question and gets angry at the answer not being straightforward enough, it really sounds like the OP has to solve an assignment and is getting too close to the dead line.
Like the one who wanted to add a beep sound to every keyboard entry of an Arduino based calculator - really, if they were a hobbyist he would have appreciated the pointers that would lead him to them by himself - but got annoyed at not being given a plain code line - and if it was not a hobbyist, who needs an Arduino calculator?
This is also accentuated by the fact that the question are poorly constructed and no context, i.e. the OP doesn't really understand the question they're asking.
There's nothing wrong to ask questions about an assignment, but it seems that EEVfolks know that giving directly the answer won't help the OP in long term and would rather direct them to find the answer by themself.
I haven't said that there is someone that mocked somebody here, I just stated a fact. Now what I just can't handle is the comment that says that "I'm trolling because I ask this (stupid) question". I don't know if I have to remind I'm every single post that this is a BEGGINERS FORUM. Anyway, let's cut the drama.
Again, thanks for your help. Specially to the one who posted the image.
Have a good day.
I now understand why we had differing views on what one of the posters said.
I doubt they meant anything bad (by saying troll). They were just defending their answer, against the possibility, that instead of being a real genuine beginner, you might have been someone messing about.
Well.... so far the answers have been answering "HOW is the circuit shorted." Yes, there is a wire directly connecting the positive and negative ends of the voltage source. That's pretty obvious from the schematic. Painfully obvious in fact.
But we still don't know "WHY" the circuit is shorted. That is, why did the OP design the circuit that way, with the obvious short in it? What was the OP trying to achieve with this circuit? It seems clear to me that a non-functional circuit incorporating a direct short across the power supply probably wasn't the intended result.
Was probably part of a school exercise or class test
Was probably part of a school exercise or class test^ This.
When someone asks a quite basic question and gets angry at the answer not being straightforward enough, it really sounds like the OP has to solve an assignment and is getting too close to the dead line.
Like the one who wanted to add a beep sound to every keyboard entry of an Arduino based calculator - really, if they were a hobbyist they would have appreciated the pointers that would lead themto find a solution by themself - but got annoyed at not being given a plain code line - and if it was not a hobbyist, who needs an Arduino calculator?
This is also accentuated by the fact that the question are poorly constructed and no context, i.e. the OP doesn't really understand the question they're asking.
There's nothing wrong to ask questions about an assignment, but it seems that EEVfolks know that giving directly the answer won't help the OP in long term and would rather direct them to find the answer by themself.
Not blaming anyone here, but it would have been easier if the OP stated whether this was an assignment or not, or formulate the question in a different way.
We all had our brain farts followed by facepalm moments...
This is the beginners forum, so keep in mind some people are *really* beginners. I've posted another problem for the OP, maybe it will help them understand better. Almost the same circuit... but I've moved one wire (the bottom one) from one side of the resistor to the other.
This new circuit "fixes" the short-circuit. Now you can do some calculations to test your knowledge. Some are obvious, which may seem like a trick question.
1. What is the current through each resistor?
2. What is the voltage drop through each resistor? (yes this is an obvious one)
3. Can you replace the 3 resistors with 1 resistor that does the same job?
4. Why would you use 3 resistors instead of 1?
5. What happens if 1 of the resistors "blows". What will the new current/voltages be on the remaining 2?
Anyways, just a few basics...
This is the beginners forum, so keep in mind some people are *really* beginners.
I really appreciate the time you took to write this reply, I'll start solving that exercise and it might be really straightforward for almost everyone in this forum but some of those guys forget that nobody is born knowing a subject and start using some quite questionable adjectives but whatever, I'll keep asking stupid questions because I'm pretty sure that if one of those guys would like to know something about and airplane engine (my strong subject) I would never use those adjectives... Maybe some people SHOULDN'T be on this beginner's forum if they are not willing to come across some pretty "painfully obvious and stupid -that might even look that the OP is teasing them- questions".
Anyway, I really want to thank those who helped me, you guys rock. Wish you all the best!
I just wonder HOW would that be helpful or make something "easier"? Even if it was an assignment or an exercise on a textbook the answer would've been the same, right? There is a path with no resistance and the current would flow through that path. I just can't see how could the context affect the result. But that's just me.