encapsulation vs abstraction real world example

Question

For an example of encapsulation i can think of the interaction between a user and a mobile phone. The user does not need to know the internal working of the mobile phone to

Answer 1

Let me give my 2 cents of a real-world example-analogy close to IT.

Lets say you have a subscription site, e.g a wordpress site

Each user has a role, eg admin, subscriber and so on. Many users can be admins, subscribers etc..

So abstraction here is reflected in the fact that any user with admin role can do a set of things, it does not matter which specific user this is (this is an example of abstraction).

On the other hand, subscriber users do not have access to certain settings of the site, thus some internals of the application are encapsulated for plain subscribers (this is an example of encapsulation)

As one can see abstraction and encapsulation are relative concepts, they apply with respect to something specific.

One can follow this line of reasoning and explain polymoprhism and inheritance.

For example super-admin users could do all the things admin users could do, plus some more. Moreover, if admin roles get an update in functionality, super-admins would get the same update. Thus one can see here an example of inheritance, in that super-admin roles inherit all the properties of admin roles and extend them. Note that for most part of the site, admins are interchangeable with super-admins (meaning a super-admin user can easily be used in place of an admin user, but not vice-versa in general).