Learn how to simplify complex electrical elements with equivalent circuits using Thevenin's theorem, Norton's theorem, impedance, admittance, and transfer functions.

To apply the maximum power transfer theorem to a Norton circuit, you need to find the Norton equivalent current and resistance of the original circuit. Then, you need to set the load resistance ...

Norton's theorem states that any linear, active, bilateral network containing voltage sources, current sources, and resistors can be replaced by an equivalent circuit consisting of a single current ...

As in the Thévenin Circuit Theorem, the object of the exercise is to find the equivalent circuit. To do so, we first remove the load, either a resistor or similar passive component. Then, ...

Now, the currents (I SC – Y T) and (I SC + Y T) flowing through the independent voltage sources can be added and subtracted by polynomial current controlled current sources to derive the Norton short ...

Figure 2 The Norton equivalent circuit for a linear network with an arbitrary load conductance of value ( G NOR /k) with k>0, is shown in 2a for the network; the load conductance G NOR /k in the ...

The generality of the equivalent source network was not appreciated until forty-three years later. Then, in 1926, Edward Lawry Norton (1898-1983) wrote an internal Bell Laboratory technical report ...

Here, i N = i SC because source current is diverted through the short circuit load. To find the equivalent resistance R N , remove all power sources and calculate total resistance at the load.

The voltage-source equivalent was first derived by Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) in an 1853 paper. Exactly thirty years later in 1883, Leon Charles Thevenin (1857-1926) published the same result, ...