Units of Energy - Joule, Electronvolt, British Thermal Unit, Calorie, Erg, Orders of Magnitude, Cubic Mile of Oil, Kilowatt Hour, TNT Equivalent (Paperback)

Chapters: Joule, Electronvolt, British Thermal Unit, Calorie, Erg, Orders of Magnitude, Cubic Mile of Oil, Kilowatt Hour, Tnt Equivalent, Gasoline Gallon Equivalent, Rydberg Constant, Tonne of Oil Equivalent, Foot-Pound, Planck Energy, Barrel of Oil Equivalent, Hartree, Foe, Quad, Foot-Poundal, Horsepower-Hour, Petaton, Teraton, Exaton. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 99. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: This list compares various energies in joules (J), organized by order of magnitude. SI prefix: yocto- (yJ) SI prefix: zepto- (zJ) SI prefix: atto- (aJ) SI prefix: femto- (fJ) SI prefix: pico- (pJ) SI prefix: nano- (nJ) SI prefix: micro- (uJ) SI prefix: milli- (mJ) SI prefix: centi- (cJ) SI prefix: deci- (dJ) 1 J in everyday life is approximately: the energy required to lift a small apple (100 grams) one meter against Earth's gravitythe amount of energy that a quiet person produces as heat, every hundredth of a secondthe energy required to heat one gram of dry, cool air by 1 degree Celsius SI prefix: deca- (daJ) SI prefix: hecto- (hJ) SI prefix: kilo- (kJ) SI prefix: mega- (MJ) SI prefix: giga- (GJ) SI prefix: tera- (TJ) SI prefix: peta- (PJ) SI prefix: exa- (EJ) SI prefix: zetta- (ZJ) SI prefix: yotta- (YJ) ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=93946