I don't understand the following from Volume 1 Chapter 5 (page 146).
It's about a simple circuit with a battery and three resistors in series.
The middle resistor R2 fails open, changing to infinite resistance.
(Quotes in blue.)
With zero circuit current, there is no electron flow to produce
voltage drops across R1 or R3. R2, on the other hand, will
manifest the full supply voltage across its terminals.
You say R1 and R3 have no voltage drop because they have no current. But R2 also has no current, so how can it have a voltage drop? Is electron flow necessary to produce voltage drops? Page 20 shows a break in a wire that otherwise shorts a battery, and there is a voltage drop across the break but "no flow!"
PS, a few small things:
Volume 1 Chapter 1 (page 16)
:registers appears as a mysterious paragraph of its own.
Volume 1 Chapter 5 (page 149)
this new kind of analysis without precise numerical figures
something I like to call qualitative analysis.
Missing the word "is"
Volume 1 Chapter 6 (page 187)
i The current through R1 is still exactly twice that of R3,
despite the fact that the source voltage has changed.
There's an extra "i" at the beginning of this sentence.
It's about a simple circuit with a battery and three resistors in series.
The middle resistor R2 fails open, changing to infinite resistance.
(Quotes in blue.)
With zero circuit current, there is no electron flow to produce
voltage drops across R1 or R3. R2, on the other hand, will
manifest the full supply voltage across its terminals.
You say R1 and R3 have no voltage drop because they have no current. But R2 also has no current, so how can it have a voltage drop? Is electron flow necessary to produce voltage drops? Page 20 shows a break in a wire that otherwise shorts a battery, and there is a voltage drop across the break but "no flow!"
PS, a few small things:
Volume 1 Chapter 1 (page 16)
:registers appears as a mysterious paragraph of its own.
Volume 1 Chapter 5 (page 149)
this new kind of analysis without precise numerical figures
something I like to call qualitative analysis.
Missing the word "is"
Volume 1 Chapter 6 (page 187)
i The current through R1 is still exactly twice that of R3,
despite the fact that the source voltage has changed.
There's an extra "i" at the beginning of this sentence.