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When I was taking undergrad EE classes, I don’t recall it ever coming up. I think people’s comfort with and intuition for electricity are at least as good as fo
by sevensor 2y ago
When I was taking undergrad EE classes, I don’t recall it ever coming up. I think people’s comfort with and intuition for electricity are at least as good as for water, which actually behaves in deeply unintuitive ways. We’ve been living with switches and toaster ovens for generations now, people understand resistance, voltage, and current just fine on their own terms. Or at least, water analogies don’t help because people don’t understand water any better.
- FuriouslyAdrift 2y agoOnce you start dealing with EM fields and even fairly common filter designs in the AC domain, the hydraulic analogy starts breaking down and becomes an impedement to learning... so my prof would say. I was never taught the water analogy but I saw quite a few students struggle trying to wrap their heads around a physics (EM, RF, potentials, etc) based circuit design and theory.