How much power is produced if a voltage of 9 V9V is applied to a circuit with a resistance of 3 Omega?

2 Answers
Mar 11, 2016

I found: 27"Watts"

Explanation:

Consider that your voltage is telling you the quantity of energy, in joules, carried by each Couomb of charge; in our case every coulomb of charge is carring 9 Joules of energy. But how many coulomb are passing by to give you the energy in, say, 1 second?
Ohm tells us that in our wire of resistence 3Omega passes a current given as:
i=V/R=9/3=3A but this current tells us that we have 3 Coulombs each second passing by!!!

So we can join volts and amperes together to say that the power P (equal to energy/time) will be:

P=Vi="joule"/"Coulomb"*"Coulomb"/"time"="Joule"/"time"="Watts"
YES!!!

so:

Power=3*9=27"Watts"

Mar 11, 2016

=27W

Explanation:

Power P=V^2/R , where V = voltage and R = resistance
:.P=V^2/R=9^2/3=27W