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One typical 12 V motor vehicle headlight (typically 60 W) 9 A 230 V AC, toaster, kettle (2 kW) 10 1: 10 or 20 A 230 V AC, Europe common domestic circuit breaker rating 15 or 20 A 120 V AC, United States, Canada and Mexico domestic circuit breaker rating 16.6 A 120 V AC, toaster, kettle (2 kW) 20 A 230 V AC, Immersion heater (4.6 kW) 24 A
A unit of electrical energy, particularly for utility bills, is the kilowatt-hour (kWh); [3] one kilowatt-hour is equivalent to 3.6 megajoules. Electricity usage is often given in units of kilowatt-hours per year or other periods. [4] This is a measurement of average power consumption, meaning the average rate at which energy is transferred ...
geo: electrical power output of Togo: 1.22 × 10 7 W tech: approx power available to a Eurostar 20-carriage train 1.5 × 10 7 W tech: electrical power consumption of Sunway TaihuLight, the most powerful supercomputer in China 1.6 × 10 7 W tech: rate at which a typical gasoline pump transfers chemical energy to a vehicle 2.6 × 10 7 W
By Landauer's principle, the minimum amount of energy required at 25 °C to change one bit of information 3–7×10 −21 J Energy of a van der Waals interaction between atoms (0.02–0.04 eV) [11] [12] 4.1×10 −21 J The "kT" constant at 25 °C, a common rough approximation for the total thermal energy of each molecule in a system (0.03 eV) [13]
Symbol [1] Name of quantity Unit name Symbol Base units E energy: joule: J = C⋅V = W⋅s kg⋅m 2 ⋅s −2: Q electric charge: coulomb: C A⋅s I electric current: ampere
Electric heating is an example of converting electrical energy into thermal energy. The simplest and most common type of electric heater uses electrical resistance to convert the energy. There are other ways to use electrical energy. Electric charges moves as a current the heater element which has a potential difference between the ends: energy ...
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 is the product of the aerodynamic drag plus traction force on the wheels, and ...
High-precision laboratory measurements of electrical quantities are used in experiments to determine fundamental physical properties such as the charge of the electron or the speed of light, and in the definition of the units for electrical measurements, with precision in some cases on the order of a few parts per million. Less precise ...