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Electronics

Ohm's law for any two of voltage, current, resistance and power, voltage drop along a cable, and resistor colour codes both ways.

Ohm's law ties voltage, current and resistance together, and power follows from any two of them, so the Ohm's law calculator works from whichever pair you know, all six of them, and says so plainly when a zero resistance means a short circuit instead of printing infinity. Voltage drop is the same law applied to a long cable: the current goes out and comes back, so a single-phase run drops voltage over twice its length, and a three-phase run over the square root of three times it. Conductor resistance comes from the metal's resistivity and the wire's area, and the American Wire Gauge is itself defined by a formula, so no gauge table is copied in. The resistor colour code reads bands to a value with its tolerance range, and a value back to bands. None of these pages sizes a conductor or checks anything against an electrical code; ampacity, derating and local rules govern that.