case of capacitance, one analogy to a capacitor in mechanical rectilineal terms is a spring where the compliance of the spring is analogous to the capacitance...

In electrical engineering, a capacitor is a device that stores electrical energy by accumulating electric charges on two closely spaced surfaces that...

term elastance was coined by Oliver Heaviside through the analogy of a capacitor to a spring. The term is also used for analogous quantities in other energy...

energy flow, storage and dissipation. The gyrator–capacitor model is an example of a group of analogies that preserve energy flow across energy domains...

inverse of capacitance. A mechanical component analogous to a capacitor is a spring. A capacitor is governed by the constitutive equation, v = D ∫ i d t ....

admittance. The mechanical analogy of capacitance in the mobility analogy is mass. A mechanical component analogous to a capacitor is a large, rigid weight...

quantities analogous. The analogy shown in the table, which does use a power conjugate pair, is sometimes called the gyrator–capacitor model. A transducer is...

then be the flow variable. This is known as the gyrator-capacitor model. A widely used analogy in the thermal domain maps temperature difference as the...

differential) equation. Furthermore, these sorts of systems follow the capacitor or spring analogy, in the sense that the dominant degree of freedom in the energy...

arises in connection with capacitors with no medium between the plates. Consider the charging capacitor in the figure. The capacitor is in a circuit that causes...

analogy Network analysis (electrical circuits) Resistance distance Series-parallel duality Series-parallel partial order Series and parallel springs Topology...

electrical circuit consisting of a resistor (R), an inductor (L), and a capacitor (C), connected in series or in parallel. The name of the circuit is derived...

measuring unit by wires. Named by analogy with a real-world bed of nails, these devices contain an array of small, spring-loaded pogo pins; each pogo pin...

resistances are represented by resistors and thermal capacitances by capacitors. The diagram shows an equivalent thermal circuit for a semiconductor device...

to make contact with the inner foil. It was the original form of the capacitor (also called a condenser). Its invention was a discovery made independently...

and large elastic arteries is therefore analogous to a capacitor (employing the hydraulic analogy); to put it another way, these arteries collectively act...

mechanical components, such as springs and dashpots (viscous-fluid dampers), and electrical components, such as capacitors, inductors, and resistors is...

between points can be caused by the build-up of electric charge (e.g., a capacitor), and from an electromotive force (e.g., electromagnetic induction in...

needed] A further electrical analogy is a capacitor connected across a power line: current flows through the capacitor but it is out of phase with the...

to respectively an electrical capacitor and an electrical inductor, and analogous to, respectively, a mechanical spring attached to a mass. Note that...

interrupter arm springs back to close the contact again, and the cycle repeats. Each pulse of high voltage charged up the capacitor until the spark gap...

realized that an electric charge was the analogy of the magnetic bubble and that it could be stored on a tiny MOS capacitor. As it was fairly straightforward...

ferroelectric capacitors very useful, e.g. for sensor applications. Ferroelectric capacitors are used in medical ultrasound machines (the capacitors generate...

capacitor connected to a voltage supply initially causes a current as it accumulates charge; this current will however decay in time as the capacitor...

consider a parallel conductive plate capacitor, in which the plates can move relative to one another. Such a capacitor would allow transfer of the electric...

realized that an electric charge was the analogy of the magnetic bubble and that it could be stored on a tiny MOS capacitor. As it was fairly straightforward...

Circuits, and Schematics". Retrieved 8 December 2011. The energy storage capacitor for pocket cameras is typically 100 to 400 uF at 330 V (charged to 300...

is nonzero for a time-varying charge density. An example occurs in a capacitor circuit where time-varying charge densities exist on the plates. Second...

electrical elements (capacitor replaces a spring, etc.). There is a pitfall with the application of the electro-mechanical analogy, which has to do with...

realized that an electric charge was the analogy of the magnetic bubble and that it could be stored on a tiny MOS capacitor. As it was fairly straightforward...