English Explanatory Dictionary

Thévenin's theorem

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A theorem which states that any electric circuit between two terminals containing only resistors, voltage sources, and current sources can be equivalently replaced with a single voltage source and resistor.

Word forms

Thévenin's theorem

Etymology

Derived in 1883 by French electrical engineer Léon Charles Thévenin; however, it had been independently derived in 1853 by German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz.

Related words

Norton's theorem
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