Abstract
Kirchhoff's laws fail to hold in general for infinite electrical networks. Standard calculus is simply incapable of resolving this paradox because it cannot provide the infinitesimals and more generally the hyperreal currents and voltages that such networks often require. However, nonstandard analysis can do precisely this. The idea of a nonstandard electrical network is introduced in this paper and is used to reestablish Kirchhoff's laws for a fairly broad class of infinite electrical networks. The second section herein presents a fairly brief tutorial on infinitesimals, hyperreal numbers, and the key ideas of nonstandard analysis needed for a comprehension of this paper.
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