The number of equations must equal the number of unknowns in a circuit.

When basic circuit elements are interconnected to form a circuit, the resulting interconnection is described in terms of nodes, paths, branches, ________, and meshes.

The number of unknown currents in a circuit equals the number of _______, b, where the current is not known.

The first step is to make a neat layout of the circuit so that no branches cross over and to mark clearly the __________ nodes on the circuit diagram.

A node voltage is defined as the voltage rise from the reference node to a _____________ node.

When a voltage source is the only element between two essential _______, the node-voltage method is simplified.

In general, when you use the node-voltage method to solve circuits that have voltage sources connected directly between essential nodes, the number of unknown node voltages is _______.

When a voltage source is between two essential nodes, we can combine those nodes to form a _____________.

A ___________ current is the current that exists only in the perimeter of a mesh.

If the circuit contains dependent sources, the mesh-current equations must be supplemented by the appropriate _________ equations.

When a branch circuit includes a current source, the mesh-current method requires some ___________ manipulations.

To create a _____________, we mentally remove the current source from the circuit by simply avoiding this branch when writing the mesh-current equations.

The greatest advantage of both the node-voltage and mesh-current methods is that they reduce the number of simultaneous ___________ that must be manipulated.

A ________ transformation allowes a voltage source in a series with a resistor to be replaced by a current source in parallel with the same resistor or vice versa.

Thevenin and Norton __________ are circuit simplification techniques that focus on terminal behavior and thus are extremely valuable aids in analysis.

To find the Thevenin equivalent of a circuit, we first calculate the open-circuit ________ of .

The next step is to place a short circuit across the terminals and calculate the resulting short-circuit ___________.

A Norton equivalent circuit consists of an independent current source in parallel with the Norton equivalent _________.

Circuit analysis plays an inportant role in the analysis of systems designed to transfer _______ from a source to a load.

Thus maximum power transfer occurs when the _________ resistance equals the Thevenin resistance .

A linear system obeys the principle of superposition, which states that whenever a linear system is excited, or driven, by more than one independent source of energy, the total response is the _____ of the individual responses.

When applying superposition to linear circuits containing both independent and dependent sources, you must recognize that the dependant sources are never _________.