Here is my thought:www.ddhw.com First, let's consider a different situation: assume a voltage U at A and 0 at both B and C. Let's assume the equivalent resistance is R0. www.ddhw.com Now, consider the original question, assume a voltage U at A and 0 at B. The voltage at C should then be U/2. Now, assume we have another copy of the grid with vertices A',B',C', flip this copy and super impose it on top of the original grid, such that A' is on A, B' is on C and C' is on B. Now the total voltages are 2U, U/2, U/2 respectively, and the total current intensity goes in A is: I = (3/2U)/R0. That means, in the original setup, the current intensity at A is I/2, i.e. (3/4U)/R0 = U/(4/3 R0) Hence the resistence of the original question should be 4/3 R0. Now, we only need to calculate R0, which is a much easier question due to the symmetry (for one thing, there is no current in all the resistors which parallel BC) , I got R0 = 9/8 R, hence the answer to the original question is 3/2 R. www.ddhw.com
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