Kirchhoff's Laws with Resistors
Kirchhoff's Laws with Resistors: Overview
This topic covers concepts such as Methods of Finding Current in Simple Circuit, Kirchhoff's Law, Kirchhoff's First Law, Kirchhoff's Second Law, Method to Solve Complex Circuit Using Kirchhoff's Law, Short-circuiting, etc.
Important Questions on Kirchhoff's Laws with Resistors
Which of the following rule may be used to obtain the values of the three unknown currents in the branches (shown) of the circuit given below?

Apply Kirchhoff’s rule to the loops and to find currents and in the network.

Apply Kirchhoff’s rules to the loops and to write the expressions for the currents and in the network.

State Kirchhoff’s rules. Use these rules to write the expressions for the currents and in the circuit diagram shown.

Two cells of emf and and internal resistance and respectively are connected in parallel to pass a current in the same direction through an external resistance of .
Using Kirchhoff’s laws, calculate the current through each branch of the circuit and potential difference across the resistor.

Explain Kirchhoff's laws with examples.

A battery of internal resistance is connected to the network of resistances, as shown in the figure. In order that the maximum power can be delivered to the network, the value of in should be

In the circuit shown in the figure. , is a variable resistance
As the value is changed, current though the cell varies as shown. Obviously, the variation is asymptotic, i.e. as . Ratio of resistances will be:

When a battery of emf with internal resistance is charged by a supply using a series resistance of , the terminal voltage of the battery is , find .

Consider the circuit shown in which the batteries are assumed to have negligible internal resistance.
Determine the total power supplied by the middle cell.

Consider the circuit shown in which the batteries are assumed to have negligible internal resistance.
Determine the potential difference between A and B.

Consider the circuit shown in which the batteries are assumed to have negligible internal resistance.
Calculate the magnitude of the current through the middle cell.

Consider the circuit shown in which the batteries are assumed to have negligible internal resistance.
Calculate the magnitude of the current through the left cell.

Kirchhoffs loop law follows from the conservative nature of _____ field.

State whether the given statement is true or false.
Kirchhoffs junction law follows from conservation of charge.


A battery of and negligible internal resistance is connected across the diagonally opposite corners of a cubical network consisting of resistors each of resistance. Use Kirchhoffs rule to determine the total current in the network.

For the given figure, identify the relation between currents according to

In the above circuit the current in each resistance is:

The reading of ideal ammeter in the circuit is
