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  2. Watt - Wikipedia

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    0.7375621 ft⋅lbf/s = 0.001341022 hp. The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m 2 ⋅s −3. [1][2][3] It is used to quantify the rate of energy transfer. The watt is named in honor of James Watt (1736–1819), an 18th-century Scottish inventor ...

  3. Orders of magnitude (power) - Wikipedia

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    tech: nominal power of clear channel AM [24] 1.00 × 10 4 W eco: average power consumption per person in the United States in 2008 (87,216 kWh/year) 1.4 × 10 4 W tech: average power consumption of an electric car on EPA's Highway test schedule [25] [26] 1.45 × 10 4 W astro: power per square metre received from the Sun at Mercury's orbit at ...

  4. Power (physics) - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Power is the amount of energy transferred or converted per unit time. In the International System of Units, the unit of power is the watt, equal to one joule per second. Power is a scalar quantity. Specifying power in particular systems may require attention to other quantities; for example, the power involved in moving a ground vehicle ...

  5. Electric power - Wikipedia

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    Definition. Electric power, like mechanical power, is the rate of doing work, measured in watts, and represented by the letter P. The term wattage is used colloquially to mean "electric power in watts". The electric power in watts produced by an electric current I consisting of a charge of Q coulombs every t seconds passing through an electric ...

  6. Sound power - Wikipedia

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    Sound power or acoustic power is the rate at which sound energy is emitted, reflected, transmitted or received, per unit time. [1] It is defined [ 2 ] as "through a surface, the product of the sound pressure , and the component of the particle velocity , at a point on the surface in the direction normal to the surface, integrated over that ...

  7. Wattmeter - Wikipedia

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    Wattmeter. The wattmeter is an instrument for measuring the electric active power (or the average of the rate of flow of electrical energy) in watts of any given circuit. Electromagnetic wattmeters are used for measurement of utility frequency and audio frequency power; other types are required for radio frequency measurements.

  8. Kibble balance - Wikipedia

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    The Kibble balance is a development of the Ampere balance. The Kibble balance is a more accurate version of the ampere balance, an early current measuring instrument in which the force between two current-carrying coils of wire is measured and then used to calculate the magnitude of the current. The Kibble balance operates in the opposite sense ...

  9. Power density - Wikipedia

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    Power density, defined as the amount of power (the time rate of energy transfer) per unit volume, is a critical parameter used across a spectrum of scientific and engineering disciplines. This metric, typically denoted in watts per cubic meter (W/m 3), serves as a fundamental measure for evaluating the efficacy and capability of various devices ...