The Theorem of Mesh and Nodal - DC circuit.

Mohamad Razlan b. Redzuan

Universiti Kuala Lumpur British Malaysian Instituteaaaa
Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia.
Alanmuslim2309@gmail.com

Abstract: The experiment is about to demonstrate
mesh and nodal analysis using constructed
Wheatstone bridge with the appropriate resistors
that I had choosed and get the experimental
measurements and observe the difference between
theoretical and simulation results . From the circuit
I had to measure the voltage drops and the current
flows at all branches. I used a breadboard , wires ,
and a 5v dc power supply to build the complete
circuit. Apart from that , a multimeter was used to
measure the voltage and the current in the circuit.
From that result I had gained , I would use mesh
analysis and nodal analysis to find a calculated
results. After that , i had to compare between the
actual reading and the calculated results whether its
match with the analysis .
Keywords: Mesh , Nodal , Multimeter ,Compare
calculate the voltages around the loops, but we
must not get confused while using kichoff’s
voltage law for mesh analysis and kirchoff’s
current law for nodal analysis.
II. EXPERIMENTS SET UP
The tasks began with choosing 6 appropriate
resistor of any different values in the range KOhm
and identify the values of R1,R2,R3,R4,R5 and R6
using multimeter .Multimeter is a device used to
measure voltage, current and resistance. Multimeter
might be analog type multimeters or digital
multimeter. The multimeter we use was analog
multimeter that have great detecting slow voltage
changes, as you will the see the needle moving over
the scale.

I. INTRODUCTION

Mesh analysis is a method that is used to solve

a plane circuit with no wire across each other .It
also have another name which is loop analysis that
using loop current to solve any other circuit. Mesh
analysis will use a Kirchhoff’s Voltage law to
derive an equations in a circuit to find solution,
while Nodal analysis is a method to determine the
potential different between "nodes" in a circuit in
terms of the branch currents. It also have another
name which are node-voltage and branch current
method. To analyse using nodal analysis,
Kirchoff’s Current law will be use to derive the Then , the circuit will be constructs as
node equation in the circuit. simple as shown in figure 1. After that , we
inserted DC power supply which is 5V into that
By using mesh analysis , instead of labelling
circuit . when the cicuit is completed , we start to
the branch currents we need to label each “closed
measure the reading of voltage drop across each
loop” with a circulating current. We now can write
resistor .The voltage reading was take in a parallel
kirchoff’s voltage law equation in a closed loop. To
across resistor R1.We will repeat this step until the
make it more simple and easier to solve , we can
last resistor R6. For current measurement , the
change it into matrix form . In general , when we
reading was take in a series in this circuit. By using
use matrix it can be solve using creamer rule
the multimeter , we get all the voltage and current
instantly. For nodal analysis , we must determined
reading in this circuit . we calculate the result
the node voltage or current branch in an electrical
using mesh and nodal analysis and recorded each of
circuit. Afterthat , we can came out with our nodal
them to see whether it match with our reading .
equations. Not simple as mesh analysis but we can
get the answer directly . As well as using Mesh
Current Analysis, we can also use node analysis to
 III. RESULT IV. CONCLUSION

These were several results based on reading Based on the this experiment , it can be
measurement , mesh analysis and nodal analysis. concluded that both methods are used to find
current or voltage in a particular branch of an
Resistor Resistance Current Voltage electrical circuit , but using nodal analysis we can
1 980Ω 3.1mA 3.0V find easily node voltages thereby by current using
2 320Ω 1.6mA 0.5V node voltage and by using mesh analysis we can
3 970Ω 1.5mA 1.5V find current in a particular branch. Nodal analysis
4 330Ω 1.5mA 0.5V is best suited when there are current sources
5 320Ω 0.01mA 3.2mV whereas mesh analysis is best suited when energy
6 980Ω 1.5mA 1.5V sources are voltage sources rather than current
Table 1: Measured Readings sources. In both the methods needs minimum
number of equations need to be written to know the
unknown quantities.

Mesh Analysis :

5= 2270I1-970I2-320I3 I1=3.068mA Acknowledgment

0= -970I1+2270I2-320I3 I2=1.515mA The authors would like to thank you to all staff and
the others students who had contributed in this
0= -320I1-320I2+970I3 I3=1.524mA study. This project is supported by Prof. Abdul
Halim Ali , lecturer in Unikl British Malaysian
Resistor Resistance Current Voltage Institute.
1 980Ω 3.068mA 3.00V
2 320Ω 1.554mA 0.49V
3 970Ω 1.554mA 1.51V
4 330Ω 1.514mA 0.50V REFERENCES
5 320Ω 0.010mA 3.2mV
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6 980Ω 1.524mA 1.49V
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Resistor Resistance Current Voltage
1 980Ω 3.068mA 3.00V
2 320Ω 1.553mA 0.50V
3 970Ω 1.525 mA 1.48V
4 330Ω 1.514mA 0.50V
5 320Ω 0.010mA 3.2mV
6 980Ω 1.524mA 1.49V
Table 3: Nodal Results