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Applying Kirchhoff’s Current Law

Kirchhoff’s second law is called his current law and states: “At any junction point in a circuit, the current arriving

Kirchhoff’s first law is also known as his “voltage law.” The voltage law gives the relationship between the “voltage drops”

Kirchhoff’s two laws reveal a unique relationship between current, voltage, and resistance in electrical circuits that is vital to performing

Before understanding the laws associated with complex DC circuit analysis, the importance of voltage polarity and current direction must be

Sometimes it is necessary to find the individual branch currents in a parallel circuit when only resistance and total current

A voltage divider, or network, is used when it is necessary to obtain different values of voltage from a single

Total resistance of equal resistors in a parallel circuit is equal to the resistance of one resistor divided by the

Total resistance in a parallel circuit can be found by applying Ohm’s Law. Divide the voltage across the parallel resistance

The sum of the currents flowing through each branch of a parallel circuit is equal to the total current flow

The total resistance in a series circuit is equal to the sum of all the parts of that circuit, as