Re:Two capacitor paradox
by cousin_it on Monday May 25, 2020 @12:53PM
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Very nice! The hydraulic analogy actually works for electric circuits in general, and can be made precise (you can calculate how much pressure corresponds to one volt etc), though the numbers involved can get a little silly: http://amasci.com/miscon/voltpres.html
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Re:Two capacitor paradox
by scrooched_moose on Monday May 25, 2020 @07:32PM
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Heat transfer as well.
At the first engineering firm I worked for, we had a very good heat transfer solver but no electrical solver since it was an infrequent need in our field.
One of old timers was an expert at reframing the electrical problems into heat transfer, solving in the available tools, then converting back. As he said "it's all unit conversions". I never picked it up beyond simple resistance networks, but it was a cool way to abuse the tools.
https://lpsa.swarthmore.edu/Systems/Thermal/SysThermalElem.h...