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Kirchhoff's laws, named after
Gustav Kirchhoff Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (; 12 March 1824 – 17 October 1887) was a German chemist, mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy and the emission of black-body ...
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Kirchhoff's circuit laws Kirchhoff's circuit laws are two equalities that deal with the current and potential difference (commonly known as voltage) in the lumped element model of electrical circuits. They were first described in 1845 by German physicist Gustav Kirc ...
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Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation In heat transfer, Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation refers to wavelength-specific radiative emission and absorption by a material body in thermodynamic equilibrium, including radiative exchange equilibrium. It is a special case of Onsage ...
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Kirchhoff equations In fluid dynamics, the Kirchhoff equations, named after Gustav Kirchhoff, describe the motion of a rigid body In physics, a rigid body, also known as a rigid object, is a solid body in which deformation is zero or negligible, when a defor ...
in fluid dynamics * Kirchhoff's three laws of spectroscopy * Kirchhoff's law of thermochemistry *
Kirchhoff's theorem In the mathematical field of graph theory, Kirchhoff's theorem or Kirchhoff's matrix tree theorem named after Gustav Kirchhoff is a theorem about the number of spanning trees in a graph, showing that this number can be computed in polynomial time ...
about the number of spanning trees in a graph


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Kerckhoffs's principle Kerckhoffs's principle (also called Kerckhoffs's desideratum, assumption, axiom, doctrine or law) of cryptography was stated by the Dutch cryptographer Auguste Kerckhoffs in the 19th century. The principle holds that a cryptosystem should be secu ...
, of Auguste Kerckhoffs *
List of scientific laws named after people This is a list of scientific laws named after people ( eponymous laws). For other lists of eponyms, see eponym. See also * Eponym An eponym is a noun after which or for which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named. Adjectives ...
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Ohm's law Ohm's law states that the electric current through a Electrical conductor, conductor between two Node (circuits), points is directly Proportionality (mathematics), proportional to the voltage across the two points. Introducing the constant of ...
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