Chapter 3 Voltage and Current Laws

Fig. 3.1 “A circuit containing three nodes and five branches …”

Fig. 3.2 Example node to illustrate the application of KCL.

User Note: Fig. 3.19 “Addition of multiple voltage or current sources.”

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under the Slide Fig. 3.22 (a) Series combination of N resistors.
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enable slide Fig. 3.25 (a) A circuit with N resistors in parallel.
selection. Fig. 3.30 An illustration of voltage division.
Fig. 3.32 Circuit for Practice Problem 3.12.
Fig. 3.33 An illustration of current division.
Fig. 3.100 “Determine the current Ix if I1 = 100 mA.”

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 (a) A circuit containing three
nodes and five branches.
(b) Node 1 is redrawn to look like
two nodes; it is still one node.

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 Figure 3.2

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(a) Series connected voltage sources can be replaced by a
single source. (b) Parallel current sources can be replaced
by a single source.

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Examples of circuits with multiple sources,
some of which are “illegal” as they violate
Kirchhoff’s laws.

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(a) Series combination of N resistors. (b) Electrically equivalent circuit.

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 Beginning with a simple KCL equation,

or

Thus,

A special case worth remembering is

(a) A circuit with N resistors in

parallel. (b) Equivalent circuit.

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 We may find v2 by applying KVL
and Ohm’s law:

so

Thus,
An illustration of
voltage division.
or

For a string of N series resistors, we

may write:

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 Use voltage division to
determine vx in the adjacent
circuit.

2 2
vx  10V  10V  2V
2  3  10 ||10  2  3  5

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 The current flowing through R2 is

G2
or i2  i
G1  G2

An illustration of
For a parallel combination
current division. of N resistors, the current
through Rk is

Gk
ik  i
G1  G2 L  GN

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 Determine the current Ix if
I1 = 100 mA.

15
Ix  100mA  33.33 mA
15  30

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 Single-Loop Circuit Analysis

Vs  v1  v2  v3  0 KVL Vs  v1  v2  v3  0 KVL

v1  iR1  v1  iR1 
   
 2
v  iR2  Ohm's Law
 2
v  iR2  Ohm's Law
v  iR  v  iR 
 3 3  3 3 

i R1  R2  R3   Vs i R1  R2  R3   Vs
Let Vs  10V , R1  8 Let Vs  10V , R1  8
R2  13 and R3  5 R2  13 and R3  5
10V 10V
Then i   0.3846 A Then i    0.3846 A
26 26
and v1  3.0769 V , v2  5 V and v1  3.0769 V , v2  5 V
v3  1.9231 V. v3  1.9231 V.
Single-Node-Pair Circuit Analysis
I s  i1  i2  i3 KCL
i1  v / R1 , i2  v / R2 , i3  v / R3 , Ohm's Law
I s  v 1 / R1  1 / R2  1 / R3 
Let I s  20 mA , R1  1k , R2  3k , R3  7k
0.02A
Then v   13.548 V
0.001476 S
i1  13.548 mA , i2  4.516 mA , i3  1.936 mA

I s  i1  i2  i3 KCL
i1  v / R1 , i2  v / R2 , i3  v / R3 Ohm's Law
I s  v 1 / R1  1 / R2  1 / R3 
Let I s  20 mA , R1  1k , R2  3k , R3  7k
0.02A
Then v   13.548 V
0.001476 S
i1  13.548 mA , i2  4.516 mA , i3  1.936 mA