Electrical Technology, Volume 1

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Networks (a.c.)

OBJECTIVES

In this chapter you will learn about:

• Application of Kirchhoff’s laws to single phase a.c. circuits
• Voltage division in series-connected impedances
• Current division in parallel-connected impedances
• The principle of superposition
• Thevenin’s and Norton’s theorems
• Constant voltage and constant current generators
• Maximum power transfer theorem and its application
• Millman’s theorem and its application to multiple current source circuits
• Reciprocity theorem and its application
• The concept of duality
• Mesh-current analysis
• Node voltage analysis
• Problems concerning the afore-mentioned network theorems and their systematic solutions

Kirchhoff's Currernt Law (KCL)

24.1  INTRODUCTION

Circuit theorems are ideas about circuits ...