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Basic laws of the direct current circuit

Specialist area:Electrical engineering
Application:Many everyday devices use direct current: radio, television, cell phone ...

Lecturer:Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans-Peter Beck
Keywords:Electric flow field

Simple circuit:
Conduction electrons, current, field concept, voltage, resistance, Ohm's law, linear / non-linear resistors,

Calculation of resistance networks:
Counting-arrow systems, 1st Kirchhoff's law, 2nd Kirchhoff's law, series connection, voltage divider, voltmeter, parallel connection, current divider, ammeter, Wheatstone bridge, star-delta transformation, equivalent current/voltage source
Script:Electrical Engineering for Engineers (Part 1)
Chapter, pages:Ch. 2, p. E1/GS 1-27 (WS 2010/11)
Recording:WS 2004/05, video freely available:
Lecture 1 26 Oct 2004 — starting-point topic: 0:47:00
Lecture 2 02 Nov 2004
Lecture 3 09 Nov 2004
Lecture 4 16 Nov 2004
Total running time:4 h 02 min