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.

Contents 1 Representations 2 See also: 3 References: 4 External links

[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] See also:

• Hydraulic analogy

[edit] References:

• H.F. Olson, Dynamical Analogies, Van Nostrand, 2 ed, 1958

[edit] External links