Adjacent-corner resistance of a resistor cube

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If every edge of a cube has electrical resistance R, the effective resistance between adjacent vertices is . Apply a unit voltage between the terminals. Reflection symmetries leave two interior potentials x,z and their complements. Kirchhoff's current law gives , , so , . The terminal current is , proving the formula. No symmetry identifies vertices at different potentials across the source edge.

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