Recent content by drzeus

Thanks, I was going with what I knew offhand and was almost too tired to put two and two together

I think I figured it out...your answer prompted me to look up energy vs. power and I realized I originally did the math [somewhat] correctly but forgot to account for time factors cancelling themselves out which led to an answer that didn't make sense and subsequent searches consisting of the...

Damn, I screwed up my math and my units...I'm probably going to have to consider this deeper until my internal inconsistencies diminish enough to ask questions that actually make sense. Thanks for answering!

Can I convert kcals to watts in this instance? ...as in 4.184 calories/second, so .004184 watts would heat one cc of water by one degree? ...and in an ideal world (not accounting for conduction/convection/niggling details) a watthour would heat .004184 x 3600 cc's of water by one degree?

I'm heating a liter of water from 25C to 60C. I'm under the impression that a Calorie (kcal) heats one liter of water by one degree, and so heating one liter by 35 degrees requires 35 Calories. I want to convert this to Watthours but I'm not sure how...does bringing time into the equation...