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PLZ ANSWER THESE 3 QUESTIONS!! When do you use a power equation? When do you use an energy equation? When do you use the efficiency equation?

User Sonny Ng
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-- Use power when you're dealing with an amount of energy
AND the time it took. Because ...

Power =

(amount of work done or energy moved)
divided by
(time to do the work or move the energy from one place to another).


-- Use an energy equation when you have to figure out an amount of energy.
It would come up in situations like this:
. . . . . how much work is done (work is energy)
. . . . . energy needed to melt some amount of ice
. . . . . energy needed to boil some amount of water


-- Use an efficiency equation when you're dealing with

. . . . . the amount of work, or energy, or power going in
. . . . . AND the amount of work, or energy, or power coming out.
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