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Kirchhoff's voltage law

Kirchhoff's voltage law proper noun: a law showing that energy is conserved around an electrical circuit: the directed sum of the electrical potential differences around a circuit must be zero.

Proper noun

Kirchhoff's voltage law

  1. A law showing that energy is conserved around an electrical circuit: the directed sum of the electrical potential differences around a circuit must be zero.

Origin of Kirchhoff's voltage law

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

Questions about Kirchhoff's voltage law

What does Kirchhoff's voltage law mean?
Kirchhoff's voltage law means a law showing that energy is conserved around an electrical circuit: the directed sum of the electrical potential differences around a circuit must be zero.
What part of speech is Kirchhoff's voltage law?
Kirchhoff's voltage law is a proper noun.

Words near Kirchhoff's voltage law in the dictionary

  1. Kirchgessners
  2. Kirchhoefer
  3. Kirchhoff
  4. Kirchhoff's circuit laws
  5. Kirchhoff's current law
  6. Kirchhoff's voltage law
  7. Kirchhoffer
  8. Kirchhoffers
  9. Kirchhoffs
  10. Kirchner
  11. Kirchnerism

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