Current Divider

 Current Divider:

Definition:

                  Current Dividers are parallel circuits in which the source or supply current divides into a number of parallel paths.

Circuit Diagram:



Description:

                     The current divider is used to split a current in two resistive branches. Unlike the voltage divider, it's not often used for a specific purpose in a circuit., but it's instead very common to use the formulas below while analyzing circuit, to know how current splits.

Voltage drop:

As the two resistors are in parallel, you can easily find the voltage drop across them by considering a single resistor which value is the parallel of the two, and then applying the Ohm's law.

Current in R1 and R2:

By knowing the voltage across the resistors (with the previous formula), you can find the current in R1 by dividing such voltage by R1 (the same applies for R2

Current Divider Applications:

The main application of the current divider is to produce a fraction of the total current available in the circuit. However, in some cases, the component that is used to carry the current has a limit of how much current actually flows through the component.

Question:

1)Why is it called a current divider?
Answer: A parallel circuit is often called a current divider for its ability to proportion—or divide—the total current into fractional parts.

2)What is voltage and current divider?
Answer: Voltage dividers are used in a variety of applications like variable resistors (potentiometer), LDR, thermistors and cutting-edge devices like an accelerometer. Current divider circuits are mainly used to simplify circuits that would make predictions of resistor selection easy.

3)Why current is divided in parallel?
Answer: The current in a parallel circuit splits into different branches then combines again before it goes back into the supply.

4)What are types of current?
Answer: There are mainly two types of current, and they are direct current (DC) and alternating current (AC). The direct current flows in one direction, while the alternating current flows in two directions.


Voltage Divider link below:
https://basictoadvancecircuit.blogspot.com/2022/08/voltage-divider.html

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