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Kirchhoff's current law en · PROPN

Etymology

Named after German physicist and mathematician Gustav Kirchhoff (1824–1887).

Meanings

  1. A law showing that electric charge is conserved around an electrical circuit: At any point in an electrical circuit where charge density is not changing in time, the sum of currents flowing towards that point is equal to the sum of currents flowing away from that point.

Relateds

Kirchhoff's circuit laws · Kirchhoff's voltage law