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kirchhoff's laws

Noun B2 – Upper-Intermediate

Two rules used to analyse electric circuits, one stating that current entering a junction equals current leaving it, the other that voltages around a closed loop sum to zero.

"Kirchhoff's laws let the student calculate the current in each branch of the complicated circuit."

These laws are really just statements of conservation of charge and conservation of energy applied to circuits.