Sunday 8 July 2012

DC Circuits and Kircchoff's Rule


This is so far the shortest experiment we had. It was just basically creating a single complex network of resistors connected to two power sources with a certain arrangement.



Schematic Diagram



          With the aid of Kirchoff’s rule we analyzed and examined the nature of DC circuits. We took the needed data and used them in the derived formula to prove our hypotheses. And in the end of the experiment, it was true enough that the theory is correct. The summation of the current into any junction is zero (junction rule)  and the algebraic sum of the potential differences in any loop, including those associated with emf’s and those of resistive elements, must equal zero (loop rule).

References:

      H.D. Young, R.A. Freedman, University Physics with Modern Physics, Pearson Education Inc., 2004.


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