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Amps, Watts Coulombs
An Amp specifies how much Flow of electrons there is in One sec.
The amount of electrons that flow are stated in Coulombs.
There are two important values in what is above.
1) to have Amps there must be a closed Circuit with a Charge Differential. Electrons must be moving.
2)the measurement of Amps is in Seconds.
Consider that you open a faucet to fill a container for one sec. that is the equivalent of Amps and the amount for the sake of discussion is 1 Amp.
Now you open the faucet at the same rate for an hour (3600 sec) can you see the amount of electrons that have came out of the Faucet? it will be 3600 times as much as one sec.
It is important to keep this in mind when talking about amps.
1 Amp that Comes from, or creates Charge Differential of 1 Volt will Generated Work and or Heat equivalent to 1 Watt for 1 Second. I use Watt second to denote we are talking about the amount of watts expended base on time.
Keeping in mind that we are talking about electron flow, if you have 1 amp for 1 hour, that is from or generates a Charge differential of 1 volt, and it flows for 3600 second, you will expend 3600 Watts or 1 watt hour.
So if you have a Battery that is rated at 100 Ah and has a charge Differential of 3 Volts. lets say you have a flow of 100 amps for one hour.
This is not the same electrons for the whole hour so you will have 360,000 amps in one hour. At 3 Volts you will have expended 1,080,000 Watts or 300 watt hour.
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