Electronics Fundamentals: Circuits, Devices & Applications
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Author: Thomas L. Floyd, David Buchla
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Chapter 6, Problem 11ST
The output voltage of a balanced Wheatstone bridge is
- equal to the source voltage
- equal to zero
- dependent on all of the resistor values in the bridge
- dependent on the value of the unknown resistor
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