What Characteristic Of Electricity Is Expressed In Watts?

What Characteristic Of Electricity Is Expressed In Watts?

Watts is the unit that is used to measure the electric power. Here when the energy that is required in order to move the electrons from the circuit is multiplied by the number of electrons that are flowing through the circuit per second.

Today let us learn about basic electricity along with the powers and watts in detail.

Let us take an example to understand the concept of electricity in detail. Let say a power supply is connected to the motor, here the energy that is transmitted from the power supply to the motor is called electricity. Hence, we call it electrical power.

The term power is nothing but the rate at which the energy gets supplied to the motor. we have a unit for the power that is called the watt. 

Here one watt is equal to the 1 joule/second. As we said earlier when we say 1.8 joules/second. Here we can say that 1.8 watts of power are being transmitted to the motor.

And when we increase the voltage more current will be able to pass through the motor. And hence, more energy will get transferred from the power supply.

The power can be calculated by the voltage * current=power. The watt is the derived unit for the power. In order to understand electricity, first, we need to know about the atom. The atom is a particle that is invisible to the naked eye. Now let us know what the inside of the atom consists of?.

Here, the atoms consist of both the protons and the neutrons. We also have electrons where they will orbit around the nucleus that is present at the center of the atom.

Here these electrons are the main ones responsible for the occurrence of electricity.

Atoms of an element will contain the same number of protons. But it can have a different number of neutrons and a different number of electrons in it. 

The electrons are very lighter than the protons that are present in the nucleus. This can easily move.

Here, the moment of the electrons will cause the formation of the electric current. The atom protons will give a positive charge and electrons are the negative charge, all these protons ann electrons will balance each other.

Hence, it gives the charge of 0 due to the same number of protons and electrons. But we can also change the charge of the atom and its energy levels by making it gain or lose the number of electrons.

Here, the atom will have very fewer electrons than that of the protons. When we have a more number of electrons than that of the protons, then we can say that the atom is highly negatively charged and vice versa.

Here, the losing and gaining of electrons will lead to a change in the electric current or electric charge. when we have the same electrons and the protons then we call it neutral.

The energy that takes to move electrons from the circuit is one of the characteristics that is expressed in watts.