Hi, I'm following a book here and it was talking about resistance and how to calculate the total resistance of a circuit. I understand everything pretty well except the part that said something like: now having another resistance connected in paralel to the initial resistance, the current will double and go in both resistance... it also says something like the battery is producing more current because of this.
I'm wondering, is this true? I don't have a multimeter (yet) to verify... would an ammeter show an increase of current in this circuit? And as I understand it, having a circuit in paralel is just a great way of depleting a battery's power faster! (Oh i'm sure there are good applications for this, i'm not there yet)
But also, can you explain what happens with the current and why it increases when a paralel resistance is added?
Thanks a lot! Simon