Kirchhoffs Circuit Law
Home / DC Circuits / Kirchhoffs Circuit Law Kirchhoffs Circuit Law Kirchhoffs Circuit Laws allow us to solve complex circuit problems by defining a set of basic network laws and theorems for the voltages and currents around a circuit We saw in the Resistors tutorial that a single equivalent resistance, ( R T ) can be found when two or more resistors are connected together in either series, parallel or combinations of both, and that these circuits obey Ohm’s Law. However, sometimes in complex circuits such as bridge or T networks, we can not simply use Ohm’s Law alone to find the voltages or currents circulating within the circuit. For these types of calculations we need certain rules which allow us to obtain the circuit equations and for this we can use Kirchhoffs Circuit Law . In 1845, a German physicist, Gustav Kirchhoff developed a pair or set of rules or laws which deal with the conservation of c...