BASIC ANALYSIS USING KIRCHHOFFS LAWS

PROBLEM SOLVING STRATEGY

For relatively simple circuits use

For more complex circuits use

Node analysis
Loop analysis
Superposition
Source transformation
Thevenin's and Norton's theorems

ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES

1. NODE ANALYSIS

1. NODE ANALYSIS

NEXT: LOOP ANALYSIS

2. LOOP ANALYSIS

Supermesh

2. LOOP ANALYSIS

CONSTRAINT : I1 I2 = 20
SUPERMESH : (1+ j)I1 60 + (I2 I3 ) = 0
MESH 3 : (I3 I2 ) + (1 j)I3 = 0

NEXT: SOURCE SUPERPOSITION

SOURCE SUPERPOSITION

Circuit with voltage source

set to zero (S/C)

Circuit with current

source set to zero (O/C)

Principle of Source Superposition

3. SOURCE SUPERPOSITION

3. SOURCE SUPERPOSITION

Original circuit with 2 sources

Turn off voltage source

Turn off current source

3. SOURCE SUPERPOSITION

NEXT: SOURCE TRANSFORMATION

4. SOURCE TRANSFORMATION

4. SOURCE TRANSFORMATION

Now a voltage to current transformation

NEXT: THEVENIN

5. THEVENIN ANALYSIS

5. THEVENIN ANALYSIS

Voltage Divider

NEXT: NORTON

6. NORTON ANALYSIS

6. NORTON ANALYSIS

Possible techniques: loops, source

transformation, superposition