Nodal Analysis: A Circuit Analysis Technique - Prof. Clifford Grigg, Study notes of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Download Nodal Analysis: A Circuit Analysis Technique - Prof. Clifford Grigg and more Study notes Electrical and Electronics Engineering in PDF only on Docsity! lecture 2 outline 2-1 Nodal analysis Nodal Analysis is a circuit analysis technique which allows circuit analysis with significantly fewer equations than the big gun technique. Nodal Analysis is a general analysis technique which can be used to analyze any circuit The first step in nodal analysis is to choose one node as the reference node. For each remaining node, we assign a node voltage which has its positive sign at the respective node and the negative sign at the reference node. The clever thing about this choice of variable is that KVL is automatically satisfied. This allows analysis to focus on KCL and element relations. To repeat, nodal analysis is based on KCL and element relations. lecture 2 outline 2-2 Example Use nodal analysis to find ix. check your work: ix = - 4 A