Difference between amps, watts, and joules

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I am embarrassed to be asking such an elementary question, but I want someone to explain the difference between amps, watts, and joules. I tried a dictionary, but it wasn't specific enough.
 

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treplag, No one here on Physics Forums will spoon-feed you this information.

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Bobbywhy - I appreciate the detailed information, and I will definitely check it out. But I don't appreciate the condescension. If I were not genuinely interested in an answer, I would not have wasted my time to post the question. I am new to this site, and receiving a supercilious response to my first post hardly encourages me to further my knowledge via this venue.
 
treplag, I apologise if you felt condescension in my post. I certainly did not intend to insult your dignity. So, you used the dictionary to learn the difference between those three terms and were not satisfied. No surprise there.

May I suggest you check Wikipedia. If you learn what each term means then their differences will be obvious. I used those terms in Google search and found these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampere
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule

Cheers,
Bobbywhy
 
treplag;4224486[... said:
But I don't appreciate the condescension. If I were not genuinely interested in an answer, I would not have wasted my time to post the question. I am new to this site, and receiving a supercilious response to my first post hardly encourages me to further my knowledge via this venue.
Stop victimizing yourself, you asked a bad question and got called out on it.

To make up for it, I'm expecting you to follow this up with a new post where you answer your own question—or, as Bobbywhy said, at least try and we'll see where that gets us. Good luck.

https://www.physicsforums.com/blog.php?b=3588
 
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Bobbywhy - Thank you for that update and the links. No hard feelings. Cheers!