• DocumentCode
    815270
  • Title

    A General Approach to Kirchhoff´s Laws

  • Author

    Quintela, Félix R. ; Redondo, Roberto C. ; Melchor, Norberto R. ; Redondo, Margarita

  • Author_Institution
    Area de Ing. Electr., Univ. de Salamanca, Bejar
  • Volume
    52
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    5/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    273
  • Lastpage
    278
  • Abstract
    Kirchhoff´s laws are usually considered as electrical current and voltage properties. Nevertheless, they are sometimes applied to nonelectrical systems. One way to increase their efficacy and range of applicability would be to show Kirchhoff´s laws, and the properties deriving from them, as being independent of any physical system as far as possible. Some of these properties, derived exclusively from Kirchhoff´s laws, are identified in this paper, along with systems that verify them; these systems are presented as examples.
  • Keywords
    electrical engineering education; network analysis; Kirchhoff´s laws; circuit theory analysis methods; current properties; voltage properties; Network topology; Particle measurements; Position measurement; Voltage; Electrical analogies; Kirchhoff´s laws; Tellegen´s theorem; network topology;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Education, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9359
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TE.2008.928189
  • Filename
    4909474