Kirchhoff's circuit laws

Kirchhoff's circuit laws are a pair of laws that deal with the conservation of charge and energy in electrical circuits, and were first described in 1845 by Gustav Kirchhoff. Widely used in electrical engineering, they are also called Kirchhoff's rules or simply Kirchhoff's laws (see also Kirchhoff's laws for other meanings of that term).

Related Topics:
Electrical circuit - 1845 - Gustav Kirchhoff - Electrical engineering - Kirchhoff's laws

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Both circuit rules can be directly derived from the Maxwell's equations, but Kirchhoff preceded Maxwell and instead generalized work by Georg Ohm.

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Maxwell's equations - Maxwell - Georg Ohm

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