UVA Virtual Lab: Capacitor Water Tank Analogy

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written by John Bean

These pages provide a water model of an electrical circuit. In this case, the gerbil running in its wheel and the bucket pump are the equivalent of a battery. The water represents the flowing electrons. The membrane in the middle is the circuit's capacitor. The spinning waterwheel represents the resistor which powers the light bulb. This model is part of the UVA Virtual Lab collection.

This project is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the University of Virginia, IBM, and Discreet Corporation.

Please note that this resource requires Quicktime.

http://virlab.virginia.edu/VL/Cap_H2O.htm

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Education Practices - Pedagogy = Analogies Electricity & Magnetism - Capacitance = Capacitors - DC Circuits = Circuit Analysis	- Lower Undergraduate - High School	- Instructional Material = Tutorial - Audio/Visual = Movie/Animation

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2003 John Bean
Keywords:: Gerbil, battery, capacitor, circuit, gravity, height, model, water
Record Cloner:: Metadata instance created December 23, 2010 by Taha Mzoughi
Record Updated:: December 23, 2010 by Taha Mzoughi
Last Update when Cataloged:: July 5, 2006

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