Electrical Power
Electrical Power
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POWER is the rate at which energy is transferred or converted. In an electrical circuit, POWER is calculated as the product of POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE and CURRENT:
This formula tells you how much energy is used per second when a current flows through a component at a certain potential difference.
There's another way to calculate POWER if you know the RESISTANCE of a component and the CURRENT flowing through it:
This shows that POWER also depends on the square of the CURRENT and the RESISTANCE the current encounters.
POWER is the rate at which energy is transferred or converted. In an electrical circuit, POWER is calculated as the product of POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE and CURRENT:
This formula tells you how much energy is used per second when a current flows through a component at a certain potential difference.
There's another way to calculate POWER if you know the RESISTANCE of a component and the CURRENT flowing through it:
This shows that POWER also depends on the square of the CURRENT and the RESISTANCE the current encounters.
