CHAPTER 2
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ELECTRICAL SYSTEMSOverview Phenomena Activities Readings Materials
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What this chapter is all about… |
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Electrical processes and systems govern much of our technically oriented daily lives, but they are just as important in natural systems. The study of electricity allows us to apply analogical reasoning: we will describe electrical systems just as we did hydraulic ones. Charge takes the role of volume of fluid and voltage is analogous to pressure differences. The coupling of hydraulic, electrical, and gravitational processes will introduce us to the role of energy in physical processes. |
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Phenomena and applications… |
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Equilibration of voltages. Two capacitors with additional resistor. Voltages, electric currents, and circuits. Incandescent bulbs and diodes. Starting and stopping electric currents. Electromagnetic oscillators and waveguides. Electric Windkessel models in analogy to the mammalian blood flow systems. Batteries and other generators. Modeling super-capacitors. Photovoltaic systems. Hydroelectric power plants: Electricity and energy. And more… |
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