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Objective: To Verify Kirchoff's Current Law in D.C Circuits. Equipment: Three Analog Ammeters, Three Rheostats, Conducting Wires, AC Power Source, AC-DC

This document outlines an experiment to verify Kirchoff's Current Law in a DC circuit. It explains the theory behind Kirchoff's Current Law as the principle that the algebraic sum of currents entering any node in a circuit must be zero. The procedure connects three resistors and ammeters in a circuit with a DC power source and measures the currents, comparing the sum of two currents to the third to check if they sum to zero. Precautions are listed to properly conduct the experiment.

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Objective: To Verify Kirchoff's Current Law in D.C Circuits. Equipment: Three Analog Ammeters, Three Rheostats, Conducting Wires, AC Power Source, AC-DC

This document outlines an experiment to verify Kirchoff's Current Law in a DC circuit. It explains the theory behind Kirchoff's Current Law as the principle that the algebraic sum of currents entering any node in a circuit must be zero. The procedure connects three resistors and ammeters in a circuit with a DC power source and measures the currents, comparing the sum of two currents to the third to check if they sum to zero. Precautions are listed to properly conduct the experiment.

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Objective : To verify Kirchoff's Current Law in D.C circuits.

Equipment: Three analog ammeters, three rheostats, conducting wires, AC power source, AC-DC
converter.
Theory:
The principal of conservation of charge states that the algebraic sum of currents entering a closed
surface is equal to the negative of the change in the charge inside the closed surface w.r.t time. ( a
negative current indicates that current is leaving the surface)

Under the assumption that the charge inside the closed surface remains constant, the equation reduces
to

Upon reducing the closed surface to an infinitesimal point, the result can also be stated as: The algebraic
sums of all currents flowing into any node must be zero.
The above statement is Kirchoff's Current Law.
Note: In the electrical engineering domain, both the assumptions are valid as almost all elements that
electrical engineers deal don't accumulate charge.

Procedure:
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Connect the three rheostats with the DC voltage source as shown in the circuit diagram.
Switch on the DC source.
Note the readings of the ammeters connected in series with the three resistors.
Compare the sum of the currents across R1 and R2 with the current across the resistor R1 and
note the difference between the two values.
5. Change the resistance of the three rheostats.
6. Repeat the experiment.
Precautions:
1. Point the knob of the multimeter in the proper direction.
2. Don't keep the voltage source on for a long time. The resistance of the connecting wires may
change due to heating effects.
3. Avoid parallax errors while reading the reading of ammeters.

4. When using a multi-meter to measure the current across a resistor, switch the voltage source
only after a short interval as the current duty of a multimeter is very small.

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