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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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| We are told in the question that the thermistor dissipates 100 mW which in the metric system means 100 milliwatts or 0.1 watts. Power is the rate of work or energy per unit time (J/s). Thus we have 0.1 joules per second. |
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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:27 am Post subject: |
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Power is the rate of work:
P = W/t (= Energy/time) |
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