If the body is a circuit, what would represent a heart ventricle?

[Dajaleymon Kiwi]

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Pretty self explanatory. If arterioles are resisters, vessels wire and such; how would you best represent the ventricle? As a battery is my best guess, but I was wondering if there was any better way

Note: This is an actual question haha, i'm writing a physics Q and was looking for feedback.

 

[deleted407021]

I'd say capacitor. It kind of has a set capacity.

 

[lumpyduster]

Pretty self explanatory. If arterioles are resisters, vessels wire and such; how would you best represent the ventricle? As a battery is my best guess, but I was wondering if there was any better way

Note: This is an actual question haha, i'm writing a physics Q and was looking for feedback.

I was gonna guess a battery... Or maybe a switch?

 

[Willy38]

Pretty self explanatory. If arterioles are resisters, vessels wire and such; how would you best represent the ventricle? As a battery is my best guess, but I was wondering if there was any better way

Note: This is an actual question haha, i'm writing a physics Q and was looking for feedback.

Capacitor, it receives blood (charge), reaches capacity then pumps (discharges). Battery is good but they provide constant voltage not pulses like a capacitor would.

 

[Time Table]

I would definitely say the heart's a capacitor all on its own. Assuming conventional current, the atria would be the negative plates, with the ventricles being the positive plates. But the interventricular septum separated the two capacitors. Obviously the blood would be the electrons. My question is, what is the battery? I would guess the brain but there would have to be some sort of transition from action potential converting the electrical energy to blood in order for the brain to be a battery. Any thoughts?

 

[TraumaLlamaMD]

Lungs supplying the oxygen, maybe? The system won't work with no oxygen.

 

[Time Table]

I assumed that oxygen was the equivalent of a quark because the atmosphere has a multitude of gasses.

 

[PhysMatMan]

I would say the ventricle is more like an inductor, since the direction of charge is one way not back and forth like a capacitor. But it's been a while since circuits....

 

[NonTradJp]

Capacitor. Vc = Pressure difference on both sides before flow is allowed.

 

[JVav]

Capacitor, it receives blood (charge), reaches capacity then pumps (discharges). Battery is good but they provide constant voltage not pulses like a capacitor would.

Yea, but a capacitor doesn't just build up charge and then release it when it is full. If a battery is in the circuit, resistance will just increase until current stops. I would say that the ventricles represent batteries, albeit they are not a constant source of current.

 

[Ismet]

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