"P E Schoen" wrote in message
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It might also be modeled by a battery or a motor. Instead of
*dissipating*
power as voltage and current (resistor), it *stores* power in the form
of flux and charge, either by chemical reaction or by rotational
inertia.

Not necessarily. The antidiagonal entries on the plot of four quantities
store energy, while the upper-left, at least, dissipates power. Perhaps
the entire main diagonal dissipates.

- Resistance is the ratio of voltage to current; the product is power
(real dissipation, nonconservative).
- Capacitance is the ratio of charge to voltage; the product is energy
(stored, conservative).
- Inductance is the ratio of flux to current; the product is energy
(stored, conservative).
- Memristance is the ratio of charge to flux (or the inverse, whichever);
the product is technically energy * time, or momentum * length. Doesn't
really make sense.

Tim

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