Just one case of many:
http://www.habitablezone.com/space/messages/303073.html
What I did was; I assumed that the quantity of joules that is represented in the calculation is the heat equivalent of watts per second, in other words, if that quantity of energy is released in two seconds then the effect during one second is only half of that amount. If on the other hand that quantity of energy is released in half a second, then the effect that is created is twice the original amount.
Or to explain it differently, if we have a reference power of one watt per second, and that power is distributed over a period of two seconds, then during one second the power that is released is .5w. If that one watt of power is released in .5 sec, then it would take 2w of power to maintain that effect for a full second.
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"Could you point out where I confused energy and power or velocity and momentum?"
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- To RL. Continuation from, but posted---NOT on Space/Science---
- will get back to Johannes and Rob by the weekend ... (n/t)
- Thread is fixed
- "Could you point out where I confused energy and power or velocity and momentum?"
- Your confusion stems...
- re: To RL. Continuation from, but posted---NOT on Space/Science---
- Whoa. Better you than me, R.L. (n/t)