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4 identical light bulbs are connected in series with a 9.55 V battery. If the toal power dissipated in all the light bulbs combined is 5.18 W, what are the following?
A) the crrent through each bulb in Amps?
b) the potantial difference across each bulb
c) resistance of each bulbs filament
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