Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law (KVL) – How to Solve Complicated Circuits | Basic Circuits | Electronics

We’ve gone over KCL but now we’re going to learn about Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law, frequently known as KVL. Similar to Kirchhoff’s Current Law, Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law is another law of conservation but conservation of voltage instead of charge. In this video, we discuss what this means, try to understand these concepts intuitively, learn the best way to solve complicated circuits using this method, and then do a few circuit problems with solutions to put that theory into practice.

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Table of Contents:
0:00 Introduction
0:18 Conservation of voltage in a loop – the basis of KVL
0:51 Overview of the concept of conservation of voltage in a loop or mesh
2:53 Introduction of our five steps for solving KVL
3:45 Step 1 – Take your time
4:13 Step 2 – Assign mesh currents to all of the meshes
4:50 Step 3 – Apply KVL to each of the meshes
5:31 Step 4 – Solve the simultaneous equations
6:19 Step 5 – Sanity check
7:24 Example Number 1
13:24 Example Number 2

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