How much power is produced if a voltage of #9 V# 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#