10.3 Kirchhoff's Rules
Charge conservation at junctions and zero net voltage around any loop, turned into simultaneous equations for circuits too tangled to reduce.
3 exercises
10.3 Exercise 2
When using Kirchhoff’s laws, you need to decide which loops to use and the direction of current flow through each loop. In analyzing the circuit in the example, the direction of current flow was chosen to be clockwise, from point a to point b. How would the results change if the direction of the current was chosen to be counterclockwise, from point b to point a?
10.3 Exercise 6
What are the advantages and disadvantages of connecting batteries in series? In parallel?
10.3 Exercise 19
Apply the loop rule to Loop afedcba in the preceding problem.
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