Relationship of frequency and capacitance.

[davenn]

Do hydraulics folks use electrical analogs to study their craft. No? Then why should folks studying electronics use hydraulic analogies for their studies? Why not accept that a capacitor is charged with energy or energized, and study capacitors using energy as a quantity? The bucket brigade does not take into consideration that a capacitor will only accept a limited amount of energy/<charge imbalance>, and then will block the flow of charge or storage of energy; whereas a bucket of water will simply overflow and not block the water flow.

Ratch

Yes I agree .... The water analogy fails VERY quickly.

To answer your question, the reason that I ( Me, personally ) think of the classic water analogy, is that it helps me to visualize the problem, which is the way I learn complex concepts best.

Seriously, you would be much better off in the long run learning the proper terms and processes.
As there will come a time when you fund you have to unlearn all those bad/failing ways and finally learn the proper way.
That's going to cause confusion. You are better off starting the correct way from the beginning

Dave

 

[Flurng]

Well, you are welcome to your opinion. All I know is, throughout my "proper" education, my professor spoke of complex equations and deep theoretical abstracts, all of which went CAREENING over my head. Though I am comfortable with such terms and processes NOW, It wasn't until I bought my own electronics theory books, read them cover - to - cover at my own pace, stopping as needed to concentrate on any given topic, that electronics began to make ANY sense at all to me. Care to guess what was in those books I studied? Yep - analogies, most commonly, the water analogy, though there were others. I have heard countless times that people learn in their own ways, and this is certainly true of myself. My input was never meant as a comprehensive explanation of capacitor operation, but merely a different "way" of looking at the problem - a different point of view, if you will. I only hope that SOME one reading my post might find it helpful, even if "chopnhack", who posed the question in the first place doesn't.

 

[davenn]

and with that outburst
the thread has run its course