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When applying Kirchhoff's second rule, it is important to know when to count a voltage as positive, and when to count it as negative. This depends on the coordinate direction that you have chosen in each branch of the circuit, which also fixes what you call the positive current direction. Watch this video, which shows the specific case of the resistor one more time.
Source: Jennifer Cash, https://youtu.be/ByFkdcx54IU This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
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