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Water Flow Analogy MicroSim

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Specification

The full specification below is extracted from Chapter 1: "Electricity Basics: Voltage, Current, and Resistance".

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Type: microsim
**sim-id:** water-flow-analogy<br/>
**Library:** p5.js<br/>
**Status:** Reused<br/>
**Source:** https://dmccreary.github.io/circuits/sims/water-flow-analogy/<br/>
**Source Repo:** https://github.com/dmccreary/circuits/tree/main/docs/sims/water-flow-analogy

Reused from the MicroSim catalog (WHAT match score 0.7797). Bloom Taxonomy: Understand (L2). Bloom Verb: explain. Learning objective: Explain how voltage, current, and resistance in an electric circuit are analogous to pressure, flow rate, and pipe narrowness in a water system, by comparing an animated water-pipe system side by side with an animated electric circuit.