I'm having trouble connecting voltage drops and induced current. Imagine you have a triangular loop make up off three resistors. You place this loop in a constantly changing magnetic field. This changing magnetic field will cause an EMF and a resulting induced current in the loop.
Now imagine I place a voltmeter across one of the resistors. What does the voltmeter read? IR or 2IR? If you look at the situation one way, you are measuring the voltage drop across one resistor, so V would equal IR. But if you look at in another way, you're also measuring the voltage drop across the other half of the circuit which contains two resistors (hence a voltage drop of 2IR).
I have tried to model this situation in my schools physics lab and I do see that there is a voltage drop across the resistor so the answer is not "there is no voltage drop". My model wasn't perfect, but it seemed to imply that the voltmeter read 3IR? How could that be?
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