Power
Power
Power is defined as work (or energy transfer) per
unit time:
P = dW / dt
The SI unit of power is watt (w).
Other units are:
- 1 kw= 1E3 w
- 1 Mw= 1E6 w
- 1 kpm/s= 9.80665 w
- 1 cal/s= 4.1868 w
- 1 kcal/h= 1.163 w
- 1 erg/s=1E-7 w
- 1 hp (horse power)= 745.7 w
- 1 ft.lbf/s= 1.35582 w
- 1 Btu/h= 0.293071 w
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