How Can you Create Low Voltage but High Current?

Even if a circuit has a low voltage, it can still produce a high current if the resistance of the circuit is very small.

If we go to Ohm's Law, which is I=V/R (Current=Voltage/Resistance), we can see that the smaller the resistance in a circuit, the greater the amount of current is produced.

So even if we have a voltage of, say, only 5 volts and a wire with a resistance of 0.01Ω, the circuit will produce a current of 500A (5V/0.01Ω=500A), which is a large amount of current. This can happen if you use a very low-resistance wire with no resistor or other resistance in a circuit.



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