When balanced, the Wheatstone bridge can be analysed simply as two series strings in parallel. In our tutorial about Resistors in Series, we saw that each resistor within the series chain produces an IR drop, or voltage drop across itself as a consequence of the current flowing through it as defined by Ohms Law. Consider the series circuit below.As the two resistors are in series, the same current ( i ) flows through both of them. Therefore the current flowing through these two resistors in series is given as: V/RT.The voltage at point C, which is also the voltage drop across the lower resistor, R2 is calculated as:Then we can see that the source voltage VS is divided among the two series resistors in direct proportion to their resistances as VR1 = 4V and VR2 = 8V. This is the principle of voltage division, producing what is commonly called a potential divider circuit or voltage divider network.Now if we add another series resistor circuit using the same resistor values in parallel with the first we would have the following circuit.As the second series circuit has the same resistive values of the first, the voltage at point D, which is also the voltage drop across resistor, R4 will be the same at 8 volts, with respect to zero (battery negative), as the voltage is common and the two resistive networks are the same.But something else equally as important is that the voltage difference between point C and point D will be zero volts as both points are at the same value of 8 volts as: C = D = 8 volts, then the voltage difference is: 0 volts