Okay, so we're, we're going to apply,

Kirchhoff's voltage law then to solve

this circuit.
So that says that the, the sum of the
voltages, has to be zero.
I'm going around this loop, and so if I
start at a, the first thing I do is I
pick up a voltage v.
Then I drop the voltage across R1 of an
amount equal to I times R1, and then
going through R2, I lose more potential.
The voltage drops by i times r2.
And Kirchhoff's voltage law, tells you
that the sum of all of those voltages has
to be zero.
So I can solve this for V, it's V equals
I times R1 plus R2, or the first thing I
asked you to find is the current I.
So I can solve this for I, that's just V
over R1 plus R2.
Now the first thing to notice here is
that this looks just like Ohm's law
before but now there's some effective
resistance, total resistance that's R1
plus R2.
That is just the series resistance.
That's how you combine resistors in
series.
So if I put R1 followed by R2, those,
that series combination is equivalent to
1 big resistor, R.
That has value R1 plus R2, and so, there
is the first simple thing that we have to
remember is how to combine resistors in
series.
You just add resistance values.
Okay, now I know the current going around
this loop.
And what I need to figure out now is,
what is the voltage at point B?
So, how much voltage drop is there across
our 2, let's do it that way.
The I know that this handle bar 2 is
connected to ground.
And I have a current given by V over R1
plus R2 going through it, and so the
voltage drop across R2.
So it, that will be vb, is just going to
be r2.
Times the current which is V, over R1
plus R2.
Now, that is just the voltage V times R2
over R1 plus R2.
Now this is a voltage divider,
[INAUDIBLE] voltage.
Now, the voltage divider tells you if I
have these 2 2 resistors in series, there
are 2 things here.
First of all I know the series
resistance, it' s the sum of those 2

resistances.
And then if I ask, what's the voltage at
this point b.
Well, if this end is at zero potential
the ground, and I have the current that's
b over R1 plus R2 passing thought it.
Then the voltage at point b must be R2
times that current.
And so if I plug that in the voltage at b
then is going to just be the, voltage at
b is just the voltage at the battery.
And multiplied by this factor, so that
tells you how much of the battery voltage
appears across R2.
The remainder of that voltage must be
dropped across R1.
So the 2 things to take away from this is
that series resistance.
Is the sum of the two resistors in series
or this applies to multiple resistors
series.
And then the voltage divider equation,
which we wrote above.
So, a few special cases.
Let's say that R1 and R2 are equal.
So then, the voltage at this midpoint
here Would be half of the vol, voltage of
the battery.
Or another case, let's say R2 is much
bigger than R1, then the voltage at point
b is going to approach the voltage of the
battery.
All of the voltage of the battery is
going to be dropped across the large
resistor.
So you see if I take, if I look at this
expression here and I say if R2 is really
big, much bigger than R1, then the
denominator here is almost the same as
R2, and so R2 over R2 is 1.
So the rule is when I have a voltage
divider, the greater amount of the
voltage is dropped across the larger
resistor.