Lesson 3 — Kirchhoff’s Laws#
KVL and KCL, labeling polarity and current direction, and checking with conservation of power.
Objectives covered
1.1 — I can calculate the voltages, currents, and power associated with devices in a simple DC-powered circuit using tools such as KVL, KCL, voltage and current dividers, Ohm’s Law, and the power equation.
Reading
DC Circuit Analysis
The course reading for Objective 1.1.
FlashcardsReview deck
Key terms, equations, and ideas from this lesson, in a self-test deck.
SlidesLesson 3 deck
The slides used in class, as a PDF.
Practice ProblemsWork these before the quiz
Ungraded problems with answers, on the downloads page.