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David Rutherford wrote:
An analogy might be measuring the amount of water in an elevated tank by
measuring the water that flows through a hose attached to the tank after
the valve is opened. Imagine that the hose has a hole in the side of it,
so that the volume of water flowing out of the hole is exactly equal to
the volume flowing out the end of the hose. In analogy with the
capacitor experiment, the water flowing out through the side would
represent the energy lost to heat dissipation in the calorimeter
experiment, and the water flowing out the end would represent the
current in the current experiment.
Not really a good analogy - the galvanometer is in series with the resistor in
the calorimeter.