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How come the voltage drop across two parallel resistors on a circuit is the same even if the resistors have different resistances?
gpt
I see others are using analogies here, I'll just keep it simple. :) Voltage is measured between two points. In the case of your two parallel resistors, the ends of each resistor are effectively shorted together, just one big piece of low resistance metal. As such, they must both have the same voltage on either end.