Electronics Fundamentals: Circuits, Devices & Applications
8th Edition
ISBN: 9780135072950
Author: Thomas L. Floyd, David Buchla
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Chapter 3, Problem 51P
Assume you have a 32-light string and one of the bulbs is burned out. Using the half-splitting approach and starting in the left half of the circuit, how many resistance measurements will it take to find the faulty bulb if it is seventeenth from the left.
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Electronics Fundamentals: Circuits, Devices & Applications
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