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How does wetting the fingers change the measured resistance from one hand to another? Explain

How does wetting the fingers change the measured resistance from one hand to another? Explain

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Lets consider that our body is a resistive thing, when you wet your fingers, which can be analogus to have water(another resistance) parallel to the surface of hands. We know that the equivalent of two resistors in parallel is:

Req = R1 R2/(R1 + R2)

So with the use of aboive formule effective resistance of the two elements in parallel is smaller than the smallest of two.

Hence, the resistance decreases.

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