Kirchoff's Law With Battery Only

[teroenza]

Hello,
If one had a resistance free wire and a battery with no internal resistance, how would Kirchoff's law be applied if the terminals of the battery were connected by the wire? Is this even an appropriate question? I know/believe current would be at infinity. I am still trying to fully understand voltage, but because it is a conservative electric field, wouldn't the equation still be equal to zero?

Thank you

 

[berkeman]

Hello,
If one had a resistance free wire and a battery with no internal resistance, how would Kirchoff's law be applied if the terminals of the battery were connected by the wire? Is this even an appropriate question? I know/believe current would be at infinity. I am still trying to fully understand voltage, but because it is a conservative electric field, wouldn't the equation still be equal to zero?

Thank you

It is not an appropriate question. Anything that generates infinite current is non-physical.

Any real voltage source has a finite internal resistance. So if you connect it to a superconducting wire, the current is determined by the finite internal resistance of the voltage source.