Therefore ammeters must be low resistance devices . Voltmeters on the other hand, are connected in parallel with the elements they are measuring. Thus they must have a very large resistance. A branch consists of one or more circuit elements connected in series and hence carrying the same current. A node is a connection point where three or more branches come together.
Resistors are, as are capacitors, connected together in many ways.
Two of the most common are series connections and parallel connections. Resistors are in series if they carry necessarily the same current. Current flows from one series resistor into the next with no alternative paths. We can replace a series combination of resistors by a single resistor which carries the same current as the series branch and which supports the same total potential difference. The equivalent resistance to a set of series resistances is the sum of the resistors.