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Understanding Multiple Load Circuits

The document discusses multiple load circuits, including series and parallel circuits, and their respective laws, such as Kirchhoff's Voltage and Current Laws. It covers key concepts like voltage drop, maximum power transfer, and the applications of these circuits in everyday devices. Additionally, it introduces conductance and its relationship to resistance in both series and parallel configurations.

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Understanding Multiple Load Circuits

The document discusses multiple load circuits, including series and parallel circuits, and their respective laws, such as Kirchhoff's Voltage and Current Laws. It covers key concepts like voltage drop, maximum power transfer, and the applications of these circuits in everyday devices. Additionally, it introduces conductance and its relationship to resistance in both series and parallel configurations.

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MULTIPLE LOAD CIRCUITS

- Circuits that contain two or more loads


Subscripts - letter, figure, or symbol.

5-2 Power in Multiple-Load Circuits (Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law)

5-3 Series Circuits


- two or more loads

Current:

Resistance:

Voltage:

• Voltage drop – potential energy difference across a resistor


• A resistor has polarity
• Open circuit – a part of the circuit is open or broken (0V) (0A)]
• After solving it is important to cross check

Voltage-Divider Equation
Application of Series Circuits

• Holiday tree lights


• Motor-speed controls
• Lamp-intensity controls
• Numerous electronic circuit

5-4 Maximum Power Transfer


- Getting the maximum possible amount of power
- When internal resistance is equal to load’s resistance

5-5 Parallel Circuits (Kirchhoffs’s Current Law)


- More than one path for current
- Each path is called a branch

Voltage is equal on all branch

Current

The Total Resistance (𝑅𝑇 ) of a parallel circuit is always less than the value of the smallest
individual resistor in the circuit.

Resistance referred to as reciprocal formula


Current-Divider Formula

Applications:
- Homes
- Automobile electric systems such as lights heater motor, radio, etc

5-6 Conductance
- Ability to conduct current
- base unit is siemens
- exact opposite of resistance

In series conductance :
For parallel conductance

5-7 Series-Parallel Circuits

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