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The equations describing force and energy of some physical domains are analog to each other. Therefore, a solution found, for example, for a mechanical system may help finding the corresponding solution for a fluidic system, and an equivalent electrical circuit can approximately describe, for instance, a thermal microsystem. Such equivalent circuits are also helpful to understand a system employing components from different physical domains. All this is briefly described in this chapter.
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Schomburg, W.K. (2015). Analogies of Physical Domains. In: Introduction to Microsystem Design. RWTHedition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47023-7_20
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