LAB NO.

04

Kirchhoff’s Current Law

Objective
 To Study and Verify Kirchhoff’s Current Law(KCL) for
Parallel Circuits.
Corresponding CLO and PLO
Equipment
• Bread board
• DC power supply,
• Resistors,
• Ammeter
Theory
Kirchhoff's Current Law or
KCL, states that the “total
current or charge entering a
junction or node is exactly
equal to the charge leaving the
node as it has no other place to
go except to leave, as no charge
is lost within the node“. In
other words the algebraic sum
of all the currents entering and
leaving a node must be equal to
zero, I(exiting) + I(entering) = 0.
This idea by Kirchhoff is
commonly known as
the Conservation of Charge.”
Theory
Circuit Diagram
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Procedure

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Calculation
• Voltage Applied(V) = V
• Resistance(R1)= Ω, R2= Ω, R3= Ω
• Equivalent resistance(1/Req)=1/R1+1/R2+1/R3.
• Vs=V1=V2=V3
• IT(Total Current)= Vs/Req= A
• IR1(Current through R1)= Vs/R1= A
• IR2(Current through R2)= Vs/R2= A
• IR3(Current through R3)= Vs/R3= A
• Apply KCL at node a
IT+(-IR1-IR2-IR3)=0
Ix=IT-IR1
• Apply KCL at node b
Ix+(IR2-IR3)=0
Resistance Current Calculated Current Measured Voltage Measured
R(Ω) I(A) I(A) V(V)

R1=

R2=

R3=
Conclusion