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Electricity

Resistance in a Series Circuit.

You can calculate the total resistance of a series circuit
by adding up the resistance of each component.

R_total = R₁ + R₂ + R₃.

In the above circuit,

R_total = 2 + 3 + 4

        = 9 Ohms.

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