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It is quite declasse, I'm sure, to offer water analogies in the didactic
environment for teaching physics or electronics.
But try this:
1) A bucket is charged with 8 pounds of water, and the height of
the water level is found to be half way up the bucket.
What is its water capacity?
2) The bucket is now emptied.
What is its water capacity now?
If people can answer the water problem but not the capacitor question,
it seems to me their teaching has been impoverished by the absense of
helpful analogy.
(Just wait 'til I get going on the helpful role that silly mnemonics
play on students' competence....)
:-)
brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK