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What does Kirchhoff's voltage law state?
What does Kirchhoff's voltage law state?
- The electric potential difference is inversely proportional to the resistance in a circuit
- The sum of the increases in electric potential is equal to the sum of the decreases in electric potential around any complete path through an electric circuit (correct)
- The electric potential difference is directly proportional to the electric current in a circuit
- The electric potential difference is equal to the product of the electric current and the resistance in a circuit
What did Gustav Kirchhoff describe in 1845?
What did Gustav Kirchhoff describe in 1845?
- Kirchhoff's voltage law and Kirchhoff's current law (correct)
- Newton's laws of motion
- Ohm's law and Faraday's law
- Einstein's theory of relativity
What governs the amount of electric potential energy charges will lose at each load in a circuit?
What governs the amount of electric potential energy charges will lose at each load in a circuit?
- Newton's law of universal gravitation
- Ohm's law
- Kirchhoff's voltage law (correct)
- Faraday's law
What did Kirchhoff's careful experiments lead to the description of?
What did Kirchhoff's careful experiments lead to the description of?
What did Kirchhoff's laws become known as?
What did Kirchhoff's laws become known as?