Can you please explain what is the refrance point os this example??

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1 Answer
May 16, 2018

Voltage is always relative; we can only measure the voltage between two points. So we pick a reference, a point in the circuit we call ground, and declare that point is zero volts. In this problem we assign point #M(0,0,5)# the value zero volts. Then we measure other voltages relative to #M.#