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What are electrical circuits a common form of modeling for physiology?
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Cardovascular and pulmonary physiology.
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What do most of the symbols represent in electrical circuits?
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Elements and driving signals
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What does a simple line represent?
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A wire that connects other components of tthe cicuit and represents a perfect conductor (zero resistance)
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I a wire a perfect conductor?
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Yes
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Does a wire have zero resistance?
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Yes
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Describe electron motion and current direction
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They are opposite to each other
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Conventioal current flow is treated as flowing from__________to__________
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Positve to negative
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Is convential current up or down a pressure gradient?
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Down pressure gradient
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Electron flow is treated as flowing from ___________ to ___________
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Electron flow is from negative to positive
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Electrons flow from negative to positive, from a ____________ to _____________.
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Electrons flow from a surplus of electron to a deficit of electrons.
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When we talk about current, what are referring to?
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Convential corrent, like fluid flowing down a total pressure energy gradient
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What do sources do in a circuit? what form may they take?
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They provide energy to operate the circuit and make take form of a battery.
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Draw typical illustration of a battery.
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See drawing
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What do the positive symbols in a battery represent?
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Conventional flow tralvels down voltage gradient from + to -
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What does the negative symbol in the battery symbol represent?
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Source of the electrons to the deficity, from - to +.
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