Chapter 11.3
Kirchhoff's Rules
Two batteries and three resistors, and no amount of series-or-parallel bookkeeping will untangle it. Two conservation laws will — one for energy, one for charge.
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By the end
- 01Apply the loop rule as energy conservation, with potential rising and falling around a closed path
- 02Apply the junction rule as charge conservation at a branch point
- 03Solve a multi-loop circuit for its currents and graph potential against position around a loop