Flow of charge in parallel?

Question

If I have a simple circuit with a battery, Resistor A, and another Resistor B in parallel to Resistor A, will there be any current going through Resistor B if Resistor A had more resistance?

Answer 1

Yes, of course because current always prefers the path of lower resistance

Answer 2

there are two tubes with water flowing...

parallely from the same tank..the thinner tube has more resistance cos it allows less water..so given pressure is same...the thinner allows lesser and the bigger allows more..simple..

here voltage is pressure..and resistance is thickness..actually you can see that in electronic level this is analogous..cos water is having 0 divergence and drift current of electron too..its intersting if u want i can explain more in a mail..

Answer 3

If the resistors are in parallel across the same battery, then the current flowing in one does not in any way relate to the current in the other.  The current in each resistor is the battery voltage divided by the resistance, no matter what the other resistance is.  However, if the battery has internal resistance, then the presence of any other parallel resistor will reduce the current since the current drawn by the added resistance will lower the battery voltage.