Energy and power

• Energy is measured in joules

  • Raising the potential of 1 coulomb of (positive) charge by 1V takes 1 joule of energy

• Power is measured in Watts

  • Energy per unit time
    • Joules/second
  • In a circuit, P = IV
    • in Watts = Joules/second

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