Yeah they are but it seems like most electrical instructors don’t know that they just think “water is close enough as an analogy to electricity but breaks with AC” when in fact they’re both identical. So they’ll tell you to forget the water model while teaching you AC. The inertia/pipe strain comparison is very rare to hear.
Aren’t water flow, electrical flow, and mechanical flow all strictly analogous? As in mathematically equivalent, not just similar?
Yeah they are but it seems like most electrical instructors don’t know that they just think “water is close enough as an analogy to electricity but breaks with AC” when in fact they’re both identical. So they’ll tell you to forget the water model while teaching you AC. The inertia/pipe strain comparison is very rare to hear.