Kirchhoff's law


Kirchhoff's law

[′kərk‚hōfs ‚lȯ] (electricity) Either of the two fundamental laws dealing with the relation of currents at a junction and voltages around closed loops in an electric network; they are known as Kirchhoff's current law and Kirchhoff's voltage law. (thermodynamics) The law that the ratio of the emissivity of a heat radiator to the absorptivity of the same radiator is the same for all bodies, depending on frequency and temperature alone, and is equal to the emissivity of a blackbody. Also known as Kirchhoff's principle.