This is probably too broad of a topic but what is Kirchhoff’s law? I tried reading up on it but even the wiki page went over my head.
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Kirchoffs Laws are two different formulas that describe how electrical current and voltage distribute in a network. Through analogies you can apply them to other forms of flow networks too.
They are quite simple:
The sum of currents going in and out of a node is always 0. That simply means electrons don’t gather somewhere, what flows in must come out
The sum of all voltages in a loop is always zero. This is easy to understand when you compare voltages to climbs in mountains. When you wander a circle and end up where you started all height differences you encountered must sum up to zero.
Note that this applies only when you don’t have electrical and magnetical fields messing with your network.
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