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  2. Electric power conversion - Wikipedia

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    A power converter is an electrical device for converting electrical energy between alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC). It can also change the voltage or frequency of the current. Power converters include simple devices such as transformers , and more complex ones like resonant converters .

  3. Joule - Wikipedia

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    One square metre of the Earth receives about 1.4 kilojoules of solar radiation every second in full daylight. [20] A human in a sprint has approximately 3 kJ of kinetic energy, [21] while a cheetah in a 122 km/h (76 mph) sprint has approximately 20 kJ. [22] One watt-hour, of electricity or any other form of energy, is 3.6 kJ. megajoule

  4. Smith chart - Wikipedia

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    Using the Smith chart, the normalised impedance may be obtained with appreciable accuracy by plotting the point representing the reflection coefficient treating the Smith chart as a polar diagram and then reading its value directly using the characteristic Smith chart scaling. This technique is a graphical alternative to substituting the values ...

  5. Voltage converter - Wikipedia

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    A voltage converter is an electric power converter which changes the voltage of an electrical power source. It may be combined with other components to create a power supply . AC and DC

  6. TNT equivalent - Wikipedia

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    Image of the Yellowstone supervolcano. 3.61 × 10 6: 4.2 EWh The solar irradiance of the Sun every 12 hours. [c] [e] 6 × 10 6: 7 EWh The estimated energy at impact when the largest fragment of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 struck Jupiter is equivalent to 6 million megatons (6 trillion tons) of TNT. [62] The impact site of the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 ...

  7. Charge amplifier - Wikipedia

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    The charge signals at the input of a charge amplifier can be as low as some fC (FemtoCoulomb = 10 −15 C). A parasitic effect of common coaxial sensor cables is a charge shift when the cable is bent. Even slight cable motion may produce considerable charge signals which cannot be distinguished from the sensor signal.

  8. AC-to-AC converter - Wikipedia

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    An AC-AC converter with approximately sinusoidal input currents and bidirectional power flow can be realized by coupling a pulse-width modulation (PWM) rectifier and a PWM inverter to the DC-link. The DC-link quantity is then impressed by an energy storage element that is common to both stages, which is a capacitor C for the voltage DC-link or ...

  9. Units of energy - Wikipedia

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    A unit of electrical energy, particularly for utility bills, is the kilowatt-hour (kWh); [3] one kilowatt-hour is equivalent to 3.6 megajoules.Electricity usage is often given in units of kilowatt-hours per year or other periods. [4]