🔖 Topics

  • Kirchhoff's current rule
  • Kirchhoff's voltage rule
  • Small networks of resistors and batteries
  • Systems of three or more equations

🎯 Objectives

  • Analyze small networks of batteris and resistors using Kirchhoff's rules
  • Review some of the basics of solving systems of equations

📋 Sequence

  • Shortcomings of equivalent resistance
  • Kirchhoff’s voltage rule
  • Kirchhoff’s current rule
  • Kirchhoff’s rules and the conservation of energy
  • Practice problems

🖥️ Animations, Simulations, Activities

📝 Practice Problems

We are going to go over a few problems together in class that demonstrate the use of Kirchhoff’s rules. There is no individual / group work for today.

✅ Partial Solutions

N/A

📘 Connected Resources

  • Giambattista, Alan, et al. College Physics With an Integrated Approach to Forces and Kinematics. 5th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2020.
  • Rouinfar, Amy, et al. “Circuit Construction Kit: DC.” PhET, https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/circuit-construction-kit-dc/latest/circuit-construction-kit-dc_en.html, January 2024.