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This is analog computing, and it is really cool. Yet, I guess if it corresponds to a circuit it should be more an ODE than a PDE (unless your "circuit" involve
by enriquto 6y ago
This is analog computing, and it is really cool. Yet, I guess if it corresponds to a circuit it should be more an ODE than a PDE (unless your "circuit" involves large pieces of surface of non-uniform resistivity).
- 3pt14159 6y agoIt was a true PDE, not an ODE. The circuit was non-trivial, but though I knew PDEs at the time he told the story, I'd never used them on electronics (only heat / pressure flow, and other physical engineering stuff) so I couldn't really understand what he was saying.
- jonah-archive 6y agoYou can definitely do this! Check out Karplus's "Analog Simulation" for examples with conductive fluids and resistance networks: https://archive.org/details/analogsimulation0000karp https://archive.org/details/analogsimulation0000karp