Readers who have some knowledge of electrical engineering could probably solve this exercise with ease (?!).
For those who do not have any idea about electrical engineering, here are the basic laws that would help (?!) in completing this exercise.
Kirchoff’s Current Law (KCL, also known as Kirchhoff’s first law, Kirchhoff’s point rule, Kirchhoff’s junction rule (or nodal rule), and Kirchhoff’s first rule), states…
At any point in an electrical circuit that does not represent a capacitor plate, the sum of currents flowing towards that point is equal to the sum of currents flowing away from that point.
Simplified, it reads thus…
At every node, the sum of all currents entering a node must equal zero.
and
Kirchoff’s Voltage Law (KVL, also known as Kirchhoff’s second law, Kirchhoff’s loop (or mesh) rule, and Kirchhoff’s second rule), which states…
The directed sum of the electrical potential differences around any closed circuit must be zero.
Here is the exercise….
Please apply Kirchoff’s Current and Voltage laws to the following figures….
[click the links to open the figures in new windows]
If you come up with the correct solution, I promise to make you the Power Minister when I become Prime Minister of India.
[Many thanks to my friend Shankar who sent this to me via email].
You forgot Kirchoff’s Last Law:
“Hand me that wire. No not that one, that one’s….yaaaaaaaaa”
LOL. Good one Rob.
Given the frequent power outages here, I’m sure the net output from all the tangled wires would be zero anyway :/
It all depends if it is raining…..besides Kirchoff’s law only applies in version 4.0 of Smirnoff’s exceptions to the universe.
I never finished EE, I am mathematically challenged beyond Calculus 101…..