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Homework Statement
How much energy (in Joule units) is in a kilowatt-hour?
A joule is a unit of energy, while a kilowatt-hour is a unit of electrical energy. One joule is equal to the amount of energy required to exert a force of one newton over a distance of one meter. A kilowatt-hour is the amount of energy consumed by using one kilowatt of power for one hour.
To calculate the number of joules in a kilowatt-hour, you multiply the number of kilowatts by the number of hours. For example, if you use 2 kilowatts of power for 5 hours, the calculation would be 2 kW x 5 hours = 10 kWh. Then, you multiply the result by 3,600 seconds (the number of seconds in an hour) to convert from kilowatt-hours to joules. In this example, the calculation would be 10 kWh x 3,600 seconds = 36,000,000 joules.
There are 3,600,000 joules in a kilowatt-hour. This is because one kilowatt-hour is equal to 3,600,000 joules, as 1 kilowatt is equal to 1,000 watts and 1 watt is equal to 1 joule per second.
To convert joules to kilowatt-hours, you divide the number of joules by 3,600,000. For example, if you have 36,000,000 joules, the conversion would be 36,000,000 joules ÷ 3,600,000 = 10 kWh.
One common example is the use of kilowatt-hours to measure household electricity usage. Your electricity bill may include the number of kilowatt-hours you have used in a given month. Joules are often used in physics and engineering to measure energy in various systems, such as the potential energy of an object or the energy produced by a nuclear reaction.