This is an interactive FORTRAN program for network assembly and solution using Gauss-Seidel iteration. Maximum size is sixteen buses and eighteen lines with student modification of size, configuration, and loading, starting from base cases defined by the instructor. Optionally the results may be displayed on a single line diagram.
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