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Electrical Engineering &

Telecommunications
Lecturer:
Ted Spooner
How to analyze simple
resistive circuits
Elec1111 Elec1111
Rm124A EE email: e.spooner@unsw.edu.au
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Circuit analysis
To find voltages and currents in circuit
Done by applying 2 sets of laws:
Element laws (e.g Ohm Ohm s law s law)
Circuit laws (Kirchhoff Kirchhoff s laws s laws)
branch
node
loop
2
Nodes
NODE
Branches
Node
BRANCH
Node
Loops
LOOP
Closed
loop
LOOP
Open
loop
LOOP
Open
loop
Kirchhoffs current law (KCL)
Sum of currents into a node = 0 Sum of currents into a node = 0
i
a
i
b
0 = +
b a
i i
b a
i i =
Kirchhoffs current law (KCL)
Sum of currents into a node = 0 Sum of currents into a node = 0
i
a
i
b 0
b a
i i =
a b
i i =
Kirchhoffs current law (KCL)
Sum of currents into a node = 0 Sum of currents into a node = 0
i
a
i
b 0
b a
i i =
a b
i i =
3
Kirchhoffs current law (KCL)
Sum of currents into a node = 0 Sum of currents into a node = 0
i
a
i
b
i
c
i
d
0
a b c d
i i i i + + =
Kirchhoffs voltage law (KVL)
Sum of voltages around a closed path = 0 Sum of voltages around a closed path = 0
1 2 3
0 v v v + =
v
1
v
2
v
3
+
+
_
_
a b
c
How many branches ?
How many nodes ?
How many loops ?
a node
This circuit has 5 elements, 3 nodes, 5 branches,
6 loops.
Analyze a single loop circuit
Step 1: Assign current direction
Step 2: Label voltages
Step 3: Apply Ohms law to resistors
Step 4: Apply KVL & KCL
Step 5: Solve for I
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EXAMPLE 1... Kirchhoff
10 V
4 3
1
2 V
+
+
PROBABLY ONLY UP TO HERE
EXAMPLE 2... Kirchhoff
10 V
40 40
40
2 V
+
+
4A
20
5
10
100V
+
EXAMPLE 3... Kirchhoff
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