Kinda technical, but i thought to put it here. I recently came across the water/propellor inductor analogy which i think is fantastic, so i wondered if there was one for transistors. Yep...here it is. Check out the PNP one especially!
Water analogies for transistors
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Heh heh ... looking again at the mechanical PNP one, well, it wouldn't even work! The cord won't pull up the emitter hatch when the base opens.Why do I feel less smart after looking at those?
I'm working on a water based transformer analogy using propellors that have magnetically coupled gear 'teeth' on the outside. The bigger propellor in one water pipe, equivalent to the transformer primary, then turns say a smaller propellor (the secondary), which spins faster in its water pipe. Faster means more pressure= more voltage but less unit flow= less current.
Are you following all this??
Edit: the only problem with this model is that with steady state 'DC' water flow it would couple...obvs no good..damn
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Ken
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These would tend to act more like a degenerate semiconductor, a semiconductor doped with enough impurity to behave in some ways like a metal, an impurity band that connects the valence shells at the atomic level which would then resemble the water flow shown here. Im still missing how all this conveys how a semiconductor truly operates, ie as the temperature of the semiconductor goes up, it acts more like a conductor and less like an insulator. I get how the two different flow directions emulate the two different p and n doping processes (valence shell electron vs hole theory.)
This is close, it just needs to somehow account for temperature, or am I just missing the whole floating boat here?
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