http://imaginarypotential.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/circuits-by-analogy/ The collected ramblings of six physics grad students and postdocs. Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:35:53 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://imaginarypotential.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/circuits-by-analogy/#comment-441 Eric Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:35:06 +0000 http://imaginarypotential.wordpress.com/?p=181#comment-441 I tend to prefer a mass attached to a spring slidiing a frictionless surface for the RC circuit analogy. Somehow the inductance/mass and capacitance/spring constant analogies seem more intuitive to me than inductance/length of string and capacitance/g. I suppose it makes adding a resistor a bit harder, since the idea of a velocity dependent frictional force is likely to be pretty foreign to them, but nicer for the basic one in my mind. I tend to prefer a mass attached to a spring slidiing a frictionless surface for the RC circuit analogy. Somehow the inductance/mass and capacitance/spring constant analogies seem more intuitive to me than inductance/length of string and capacitance/g. I suppose it makes adding a resistor a bit harder, since the idea of a velocity dependent frictional force is likely to be pretty foreign to them, but nicer for the basic one in my mind.

]]> http://imaginarypotential.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/circuits-by-analogy/#comment-440 Joshua Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:51:30 +0000 http://imaginarypotential.wordpress.com/?p=181#comment-440 So what's the analogy for a circuit with an inductor, capacitor, and memristor? ;) So what’s the analogy for a circuit with an inductor, capacitor, and memristor?

]]> http://imaginarypotential.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/circuits-by-analogy/#comment-439 Traums Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:50:13 +0000 http://imaginarypotential.wordpress.com/?p=181#comment-439 A circuit with an inductor, capacitor, resistor, AC power source and a noise generator is bad for your grades ^_,^ A circuit with an inductor, capacitor, resistor, AC power source and a noise generator is bad for your grades ^_,^

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