Recipe for superposition

Superposition holds for any linear system.

Superposition can be useful for the analysis of electrical networks with multiple
independent sources.

Step 1: Switch off every independent source but one.

Note: a voltage source being switched off acts as a short circuit, a current
source being switched off acts as an open circuit.
Derive the unknown voltage(s) and/or current(s) as a response to the one
source being switched on.
Step 2: Switch off every independent source but the next one and again derive the
unknown voltage(s) and/or current(s), now as a response to this next source
being switched on.
Step 3: Repeat until the responses to all individual independent sources were derived.
Step 4: Per node and/or branch sum the unknown voltage(s) and/or current(s) from the
previous steps, this will result in the same voltage(s) and/or current(s) when all
independent sources would have been switched on together.