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Dark Java Dude 64

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Posted: 26th May 2011 08:32

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Hello TGC forum dwellers! The other day i found a great article on Wikipedia about this thing called hydraulic analogy. It's essentially an analogy to electrical circuits and components that uses a liquid. For example, a wire would be a section of pipe, or a resistor would be a narrow in the pipe. I recommend looking at this page if you are rather interested in circuits as i am.. It even has an analogy to a transistor!

What sad is that i looked all over and apparently no body has actually built any real hydraulic circuit... That's what i should do, make my gaming console hydraulic! It would be fast, and very compact too. (excuse the sarcasm)

The website that the awesomeness dwells on is here.

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Interplanetary Funk

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Posted: 26th May 2011 10:54

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My teacher used a pub analogy to explain why thick wires have lower resistance:

Quote: "If everyone in a pub is an electron, and there's a hell of a load of people in the pub, then getting from the bar to your seats gonna be really difficult, but if the pubs bigger (hence a thicker wire) it's gonna be easier"

He also used woman driver's to explain resistance in parallel circuits:

Quote: "If it's the weekend and there's a massive sale going on at lakeside (it's a big shopping centre nearby), then all these woman are gonna be driving down the motor way and it's gonna get congested (hence high resistance) but some of the women decide to go another route that's longer, but has less traffic on it, so more women can get there quicker."

That man is a brilliant teacher.