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Kirchhoffsches

Kirchhoffsches is a German attributive adjective formed from the surname Kirchhoff. In scientific German it is attached to nouns to indicate that the concept, law, or theorem is named after Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824–1887). The form appears in several standard terms, most frequently in Kirchhoffsches Gesetz (Kirchhoff's law) and in other phrases such as Kirchhoffsches Theorem or Kirchhoffschen Satz. The exact ending depends on grammatical case and the noun it modifies.

Gustav Kirchhoff was a German physicist who made foundational contributions to thermal radiation, circuit analysis, and

In electrical circuit theory, Kirchhoffsches Gesetz is commonly associated with Kirchhoff's circuit laws, including the current

See also Gustav Kirchhoff; Kirchhoff's laws; Kirchhoff's theorem.

spectroscopy.
His
work
on
the
behavior
of
light
and
electricity
led
to
several
widely
used
statements
in
physics
that
bear
his
name.
The
adjective
Kirchhoffsches
serves
to
connect
these
statements
to
Kirchhoff
in
German
technical
writing.
law
and
the
voltage
law,
which
govern
the
conservation
of
charge
at
a
node
and
the
sum
of
voltages
around
a
loop,
respectively.
In
spectroscopy
and
thermal
radiation,
Kirchhoffsches
Gesetz
expresses
the
relationship
between
emission
and
absorption
at
thermal
equilibrium.
In
graph
theory,
Kirchhoffsches
Theorem
counts
the
number
of
spanning
trees
of
a
graph
through
the
Laplacian
matrix,
illustrating
Kirchhoff’s
influence
across
multiple
fields.