When an inductor is placed in one arm of a bridge circuit and the other three arms contain only resistors, what is the possibility of balancing the bridge?

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23 Dec 2018
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If an inductance occupies one arm and the remaining three arms are purely resistive, the bridge cannot be balanced because the inductive reactance introduces an imaginary component that resistors alone cannot compensate for.

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