Capacitor analogy
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An analogy to the capacitor in mechanical rectilineal terms is a compression spring where the compliance of the spring is analogous to the capacitance.
[edit] Representations
In this analogy:
- Charge is represented by linear displacement,
- current is represented by linear velocity,
- voltage by force.
- time by time
- energy by energy
- Electric power by power
- Electrical resistance is represented by mechanical resistance.
[edit] References:
- H.F. Olson, Dynamical Analogies, Van Nostrand, 2 ed, 1958
