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27 February 2024

  • curprev 13:4313:43, 27 February 2024Helpful talk contribs 1,461 bytes +1,461 Created page with "<!-- MOVE: Note that "power is the rate of work" is a nice set of words, but does not teach differences like: * Energy and power :: e.g. 1000W is a ''rate''. 1000Wh is an amount of energy * Work and power '''''Roughly''''' speaking: * work is the total amount of expended energy * power is the ''rate'' - different rates over different times can equal the same overall work (or, less formally, energy, with the ). Pushing very hard for ten seconds may be just as much..."