Recent content by jacqui

Its something for me to look at, I'll do a load more reading tonight. Thanks for the insight, anything helps at the moment, all the equations seem to roll into one!

a few, mostly this one: P = /\Ee ____ t = I/\V this is the equation I think electrical energy to convert into other forms of energy, but not sure where time and vaporization come in?

Homework Statement I have a certain amount of water, which is heated by a 12V battery, which has an electric current of 13A. I need to work out the time taken to reach boiling temp, where the specific heat of water is given as 4200 J kg -1 C -1? Also need to know how to calculate the time...