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Re: [Fwd: Re: capacitors don't store charge]
Ohh let me get one in there :
Think of caps as a large piece of rubber. If you push on one side of them,
it bends,
pushing out on the other side, but only to a point. When the pressure is
gone, it
will bend back, causing a + pressure on the "pushed" side to have some
energy.
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Date: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 3:16 AM
Subject: [Fwd: Re: capacitors don't store charge]
>Original Poster: Anthony DeCarmine <tdecarm-at-mail.ims.uconn.edu>
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>I agree that many of the commonly used models to describe many things
>- not only those of electrical nature - need to go. Personnally, I
>think of items like capacitors as "gradient keepers". Using the
>hydraulic analogy (thanks, Bill) i see it as a dam or levy - water may
>build up behind the obstruction until it spills over (dielectric
>breakdown?) and continues to flow, albeit with a stored potential. A
>leakage resistance could be viewed as a bypass channel at the base of
>the dam. A spillway/floodgate?
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>Another similarity might be seen in the item known as a flow damper.
>Used to smooth out the pulses from pumps such that the flow to the
>(presumably sensitive) process would be free of imposed higher
>frequency ripple. Kinda like the big caps used to smooth out voltage
>ripple in power supply? A further point for the analogy is that such a
>damper usually uses a gas volume as the buffer. Similar to the use of
>a dielectric...a different substance is used to get the properties not
>normally available to the conducter.
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>But, I babble on...
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>Tony
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