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Kirchhoff's Laws of Current & Voltage - Application, Advantage, Limitation
Kirchhoff's Laws of Current & Voltage - Application, Advantage, Limitation
Kirchhoff's Laws of Current & Voltage - Application, Advantage, Limitation
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Kirchho ’s Laws act as the best tool for circuit analysis techniques. Georg Ohm’s
work (Ohm’s law) formed the foundation to create Kirchho ’s Current Law (KCL)
and Kirchho ’s Voltage Law (KVL) by Gustav Robert Kirchho in 1845. The
objective of this post is to give a better understanding of Kirchho ’s Laws of
Current and Voltage, its applications, advantages and limitation.
1 Kirchho ’s Laws
2 Kirchho ’s Laws of Current and Voltage
2.1 Kirchho ’s Current Law (KCL) or First Law:
2.2 Kirchho ’s Voltage Law (KVL) or Second Law:
3 Applications of Kirchho ’s Laws
4 Advantages of Kirchho ’s Laws
5 Limitations of Kirchho ’s Laws
Kirchho ’s Laws
The laws of Kirchho are the two equations that address conservation of energy
and charge with reference to electrical circuits. They are very important in the
analysis of closed and complex electrical circuits such as bridge or T networks in
which calculating voltages or currents circulating within the circuit becomes
di cult using Ohm’s law alone.
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The rst law of Kirchho ’s laws is Kirchho ’s Current Law. It states that “The total
current or charge entering a junction or node is exactly equal to the current
leaving the node, as no charge is lost within the node“. It can also be stated as
the sum of currents in a network of conductors meeting at a node is equal to
zero.
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content/uploads/2019/01/Kirchho s-Current-Law.png?ssl=1)Fig. 2 – Visual
Representation of Kirchho ’s Current Law
From the above gure,we can infer that the sum of the currents entering and
leaving a node is equal to Zero (0). The current owing towards the junction is
considered positive and the current owing away from the node or junction is
considered negative.
In other words, KCL can be de ned as the algebraic sum of all the currents
entering and leaving a node must be equal to zero, i.e. Iin + Iout = 0.
The second law of Kirchho ’s laws is Kirchho ’s Voltage Law. It states that in any
closed loop network, the sum of the emf values in any closed loop is equal to the
sum of the potential drops in that loop.
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In another words, it can also be said as “The total voltage around the loop is
equal to the sum of all the voltage drops within the same loop”, which is equal to
zero.
IEC 60895
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The limitation of Kirchho ’s both laws is that it works under the assumption that
there is no uctuating magnetic eld in the closed loop. Electric elds and emf
could be induced which causes the Kirchho ’s loop rule to break in presence of a
variable magnetic eld.
Laxmi Ashrit
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Laxmi is a B.E
(Electronics &
Communication) and
has work experience
in RelQ Software as Test Engineer and HP as Technical support executive. She is an author, editor
and partner at Electricalfundablog.
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