Tuesday, 22 March 2016

100 PROBLEMS IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PART – 11 – FIVE PROBLEMS ON KIRCHHOFF’S CURRENT LAW

In 1845, a German physicist, Gustav Kirchhoff developed a pair or set of rules or laws which deal with the conservation of current and energy within Electrical Circuits.

KIRCHHOFF’S CURRENT LAW 
This law states that the “Total current or charge entering a junction or node is exactly equal to the charge leaving the node as it has no other place to go except to leave, as no charge is lost within the node”. 

In other words the algebraic sum of all the currents entering and leaving a node must be equal to zero, I(exiting) + I(entering) = 0.

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