Understanding concepts with analogies help can be a useful technique and hopefully this will help me better understand electricity and Electrical Engineering better.
Lets start with a simple water example:
X volume of water starts flowing from a collector (battery) through the pipe with Y pounds of pressure at Z speed when it comes across a thinner portion of pipe (resistor).
Now, perhaps my physics knowledge is off but I would image that when it hits the thinner portion of pipe, resistance increases causing the pressure and speed of the water to increase but the volume would decrease. If this is correct, does that mean that the voltage and current increase but the number of electrons (what is the mass/volume analogy for electrons?) would decrease (and therefore power)?
Additionally, since electrons actually flow from negative to positive (electron flow), in contrast to conventional flow, does that cause this analogy to break down in a true circuit (especially with numerous components)?
Thanks in advance for the help.
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