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Kirchhoff's current law

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  • noun physics A law showing that electric charge is conserved around an electrical circuit:- At any point in an electrical circuit where charge density is not changing in time, the sum of currents flowing towards that point is equal to the sum of currents flowing away from that point.

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From Gustav Kirchhoff German physicist.

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