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Name: Electric Circuits and Interconnection Laws
ID: m0014
Language: English (en)
Summary: A circuit is the electrical/physical analogue of a system. Kirchoff's laws provde connection rules about "nodes" in a circuit to determine relations between various circuit elements.
Subject: Science and Technology
Keywords: circuit, Kirchoff, node
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 1.0
Authors: Don Johnson (dhj@rice.edu)
Copyright Holders: Don Johnson (dhj@rice.edu)
Maintainers: Don Johnson (dhj@rice.edu), Roy Ha (rha@alumni.rice.edu), Benjamin Fite (bfite@rice.edu)
Version: 2.27 (history)
Created: Jul 6, 2000 12:00 am GMT-5
Revised: Jun 4, 2009 11:33 am GMT-5

Version History

Version: 2.27 Jun 4, 2009 11:33 am GMT-5 by Connexions
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Modified markup for explicit .eps image reference
Version: 2.26 Jul 31, 2008 6:11 pm GMT-5 by Don Johnson
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Changed spacing in an equation.
Version: 2.25 Jul 30, 2008 10:18 am GMT-5 by Don Johnson
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Reformatted equation arrays.
Version: 2.24 Jul 28, 2008 4:04 pm GMT-5 by Don Johnson
Changes: 
Fixed a minor formatting problem.
Version: 2.23 May 10, 2007 8:49 am GMT-5 by Don Johnson
Changes: 
Changed prose to clear up the writing.
Version: 2.22 Feb 9, 2007 6:54 pm US/Central by Don Johnson
Changes: 
Fixed a spelling error in the abstract.
Version: 2.21 Apr 15, 2005 10:05 am GMT-5 by Charlet Reedstrom
Changes: 
update to cnxml-0.5, changed mi to mn where needed
Version: 2.20 Aug 18, 2003 10:48 pm GMT-5 by Don Johnson
Changes: 
Fixed some quote problems.
Version: 2.19 Sep 7, 2002 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
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Fixed some math typos and added links to figures.
Version: 2.18 Aug 22, 2002 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
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Corrected a math display error.
Version: 2.17 Aug 16, 2002 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
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Deleted some extraneous equation numbers.
Version: 2.16 Jul 8, 2002 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
Changes: 
Audit of module.
Version: 2.15 Jun 20, 2002 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
Changes: 
updated to 4.0
corrected errors
Version: 2.14 Jan 31, 2002 12:00 am US/Central by (Unknown)
Changes: 
Fixed the Conductance link after an exercise to go to the appropriate section in module m0012 (the resistor section).
Version: 2.13 Sep 11, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by Brent Hendricks
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Converted to CNXML 0.3.5
Version: 2.12 Sep 10, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
Changes: 
Fixed spaces after MathML sections.
Version: 2.11 Aug 23, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
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Fixed danging open parenthesis, line 1303 (Jenn)
Version: 2.10 Aug 23, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
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Deleted whitespaces after math.
Version: 2.9 Aug 22, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
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Change some links (because the m0014 and m0015 are merged).
Version: 2.8 Aug 20, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
Changes: 
I re-uploaded all the images and their corresponding eps files.
Version: 2.7 Aug 15, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
Changes: 
- Added lots of missing images
Version: 2.6 Jul 17, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
Changes: 
Remodularized, some minor fixes.
Version: 2.5 May 31, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
Changes: 
grammar correction in last paragraph
Version: 2.4 May 30, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
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Changed module identifiers
Version: 2.3 May 30, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
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Updated abstract
Version: 2.2 May 29, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
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Updated from cnxml ver 0.2 to ver 0.3
Version: 2.1 May 25, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by (Unknown)
Changes: 
fixed <cnxn> tag, attribute module
Version: 2.0 Apr 15, 2001 12:00 am GMT-5 by Brent Hendricks
Changes: 
Bumped version to 2.0

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