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This page lists examples of the power in watts produced by various different sources of energy. They are grouped by orders of magnitude, and each section covers three orders of magnitude, or a factor of one thousand. An order of magnitude is the class of scale or magnitude of any amount, where each class contains values of a fixed ratio to the class preceding it. ...
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To help compare different orders of magnitude, the following list describes various angular velocity levels between 1×10−7 rad·s−1 and 1×107 rad·s−1. ...
This is a list of orders of magnitude for data (or information), measured in bits. ...
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To help compare different orders of magnitude, the following list describes various frequencies. ...
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This list compares various sizes of positive numbers, including counts of things, dimensionless numbers and probabilities. ...
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This is a table of specific heat capacities by magnitude. ...
To help compare different orders of magnitude, the following list describes various speed levels between 1. ...
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The pages linked in the right-hand column contain lists of times that are of the same order of magnitude (power of ten). ...
The pages linked in the right-hand column contain lists of volumes that are of the same order of magnitude (power of ten). ...
Conversion of units refers to conversion factors between different units of measurement for the same quantity. ...
The definition, agreement and practical use of units of measurement have played a crucial role in human endeavour from early ages up to this day. ...
Cover of brochure The International System of Units. ...
The SI system of units defines seven SI base units: physical units defined by an operational definition. ...
SI derived units are part of the SI system of measurement units and are derived from the seven SI base units. ...
An SI prefix is a prefix that can be applied to an SI unit to form a decimal multiple (supramultiple or submultiple). ...
In physics, Planck units are physical units of measurement defined exclusively in terms of the five universal physical constants shown in the table below in such a manner that all of these physical constants take on the numerical value of one when expressed in terms of these units. ...
In physics, power (symbol: P) is the rate at which work is performed. ...
The watt (symbol: W) is the SI derived unit of power, equal to one joule per second. ...
An order of magnitude is the class of scale or magnitude of any amount, where each class contains values of a fixed ratio to the class preceding it. ...
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Yoctowatt (10-24 watt)
Zeptowatt (10-21 watt) Galileo being deployed after being launched by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34 mission Galileo was an unmanned spacecraft sent by NASA to study the planet Jupiter and its moons. ...
Adjectives: Jovian Atmosphere Surface pressure: 70 kPa Composition: ~86% Hydrogen ~14% Helium 0. ...
Deep Space Network (DSN) is an international network of radio antennas that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions, and radio and radar astronomy observations for the exploration of the solar system and the universe. ...
Attowatt (10-18 watt) NEMS or nanoelectromechanical systems are similar to MEMS but smaller. ...
Femtowatt (10-15 watt) - 2.5 fW - Tech: minimum discernible signal at the antenna terminal of a good FM radio receiver
- 10 fW (-110 dBm) - Tech: approximate lower limit of power reception on digital spread-spectrum cell phones
The abbreviations FM, Fm, and fm may refer to: Electrical engineering Frequency modulation (FM) and its most common applications: FM broadcasting, used primarily to broadcast music and speech at VHF frequencies FM synthesis, a sound-generation technique popularized by early digital synthesizers Science Femtometre (fm), an SI measure of length...
Picowatt (10-12 watt) - 1 pW - BioMed: average power consumption of a human cell
- 2.5 pW - BioMed: Sound intensity per square centimeter for average human threshold of hearing at 1000 Hz; 1 phon or 0 dB SPL
- 150 pW - BioMed: Power entering a human eye from a 100 watt lamp 1 km away
Drawing of the structure of cork as it appeared under the microscope to Robert Hooke from Micrographia which is the origin of the word cell. Cells in culture, stained for keratin (red) and DNA (green). ...
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DB or db or dB may stand for: Database, an organized collection of data David Belle, founder of parkour DB connector, improper term for D-subminiature DB (car), a French automobile maker Dragon Ball, a manga and anime. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Sound pressure. ...
Nanowatt (10-9 watt) - 2-15nW - Tech: Power consumption of some PIC Microcontroller chips such as the PIC12F683 when in "sleep" mode. (actual consumption when sleeping depends on voltage supply used, see data sheet, Electrical Characteristics section).
Microwatt (10-6 watt) Quartz is one of the most common minerals in the Earths continental crust. ...
This page is about timekeeping devices. ...
In cosmology, the cosmic microwave background radiation (most often abbreviated CMB but occasionally CMBR, CBR or MBR, also referred as relic radiation) is a form of electromagnetic radiation discovered in 1965 that fills the entire universe. ...
Milliwatt (10-3 watt) - 5 mW - Tech: laser in a CD-ROM drive
- 5-10 mW - Tech: laser in a DVD player
- 100 mW - Tech: laser in a CD-R drive
The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ...
The inside of a DVD player A DVD player is a device for playing discs produced under the DVD Video standard. ...
A CD-R (Compact Disc-Recordable) is a variation of the Compact Disc digital audio disc invented by Philips and Sony. ...
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Watt - 5 W - Legal: maximum power output of a CB or hand-held radio transmitter
- 20-40 W - BioMed: approximate power consumption of the human brain
- 30-40 W - Tech: the power of the typical household tube light
- 60 W - Tech: the power of the typical household light bulb
- 82 W - Tech: peak power consumption of Pentium 4 CPU
- 100 W - BioMed: approximate average power used by the human body
- 120 W - Tech: power output of 1 m2 solar panel in full sunlight
- 253 W (2,215 kWh/year) - Geo: per capita average power use of the world in 2001
- 290 W - Units: approximately 1000 BTU/hour
- 300-400 W - Tech: typical PC power supply
- 400 W - Tech: legal limit of power output of an amateur radio station in the United Kingdom
- 500 W - BioMed: power output of a person working hard physically
- 745.7 W - Units: 1 horsepower
- 750 W - Astro: the amount of sunshine falling on a square metre of the Earth's surface on a clear day
- 900 W - BioMed: power output of a healthy human (non-athlete) averaged over the first 6s of a 30s cycle sprint. [1]
A typical CB base station. ...
The light bulb is one of the most significant inventions in the history of the human race, illuminating the darkness of the evening and bringing light indoors at all times in order focus on the task at hand. ...
New Intel Pentium 4 with Hyper Threading logo The Pentium 4 is a seventh-generation x86 architecture microprocessor produced by Intel and is their first all-new CPU design, called the NetBurst architecture, since the Pentium Pro of 1995. ...
This article is about modern humans. ...
A photovoltaic (PV) module that is composed of multiple PV cells. ...
The watt-hour (symbol W·h) is a unit of energy. ...
2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The British thermal unit (BTU) is a non-metric unit of energy, used in the United States and, to a certain extent, the UK. The SI unit is the joule (J), which is used by most other countries. ...
Apple Macintoshes like the iMac Core Duo are personal computers. ...
Ham radio station with modern solid-state transceiver featuring LCD display and DSP capabilities Ham radio station with vintage vacuum tube gear featuring separate transmitter, receiver and power supply Amateur radio, often called Ham radio, is a hobby and public service enjoyed by about 6 million people throughout the world. ...
The horsepower (hp) is the name of several non-metric units of power. ...
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Kilowatt (103 watt) - 1.366 kW - Astro: power received from the Sun at the Earth's orbit by one square metre
- 1.39 kW (12.2 MWh/year) - Geo: per capita average power use in the U.S. in 2003
- 1.5 kW - Tech: legal limit of power output of an amateur radio station in the United States
- up to 2 kW - BioMed: approximate short time power output of sprinting professional cyclists
- 1 kW to 2 kW - Tech: heat output of a domestic electric kettle.
- 3.3-6.6 kW - Eco: average photosynthetic power output per square kilometer of ocean [2]
- 30 kW - power generated by the four motors of GEN H-4 one man helicopter
- 16-32 kW - Eco: average photosynthetic power output per square kilometer of land [3]
- 50 kW to 100 kW - Tech: ERP of clear channel AM
- 40 kW to 200 kW - Tech: approximate range of power output of typical automobiles
- 167 kW - Tech: power consumption of UNIVAC 1 computer
- 250 kW - Tech: highest allowed ERP for an FM band radio station in the United States.
- 250 kW to 800 kW - Tech: approximate range of power output of 'Supercars'
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. ...
Earth (IPA: , often referred to as the Earth, Terra, the World or Planet Earth) is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance from the Sun, and the fifth largest. ...
To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists areas between 1 m² and 10 m². Areas smaller than 1 m² 1. ...
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2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Ham radio station with modern solid-state transceiver featuring LCD display and DSP capabilities Ham radio station with vintage vacuum tube gear featuring separate transmitter, receiver and power supply Amateur radio, often called Ham radio, is a hobby and public service enjoyed by about 6 million people throughout the world. ...
A kettle is a kitchenware piece. ...
Leaf. ...
To help compare sizes of different geographic regions, we list here areas between 1 km² (100 hectares) and 10 km² (1000 hectares). ...
Oceans (from Okeanos in Greek) are saline waters that cover almost three quarters (71%) of the surface of the Earth. ...
A landform comprises a geomorphological unit. ...
In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or ERP is determined by subtracting system losses from system gains. ...
Clear channel stations are AM radio stations that are designated as such so that only one or two 50,000 watt powerhouses operate at night on each designated frequency, covering a wide area via sky wave propagation. ...
Mediumwave radio transmissions (sometimes called Medium frequency or MF) are those between the frequencies of 300 kHz and 3000 kHz. ...
For the magazine called automobile, see Automobile Magazine. ...
UNIVAC I central complex, containing the central processor and mercury memory. ...
In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or ERP is determined by subtracting system losses from system gains. ...
In most of the world, the FM broadcast band, used for broadcasting FM radio stations, goes from 87. ...
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Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...
The productive capacity of electrical generators operated by utility companies is often measured in MW. Few things can sustain the transfer or consumption of energy on this scale; some of these events or entities include: lightning strikes, naval craft (such as aircraft carriers and submarines), engineering hardware, and some scientific research equipment (such as the supercollider and large lasers). The megawatt (symbol: MW) is a unit for measuring power corresponding to one million (106) watts. ...
The North American P-51 Mustang was a successful long range fighter aircraft which set new standards of excellence and performance when it entered service in the middle years of World War II and is still regarded as one of the very best piston-engined fighters ever made. ...
Binomial name Balaenoptera musculus (Linnaeus, 1758) Blue Whale range The Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales. ...
A locomotive (from Latin loco motivus) is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train, and has no payload capacity of its own; its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks. ...
In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or ERP is determined by subtracting system losses from system gains. ...
This article is about the radio frequency. ...
A television station is a type of broadcast station that broadcasts both audio and video to television receivers in a particular area. ...
The Nimitz-class supercarriers are a line of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in service with the US Navy, and are the largest capital ships in the world. ...
The CANDU reactor is a pressurized-heavy water, natural-uranium power reactor designed in the 1960s by a partnership between Atomic Energy of Canada Limited and the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario as well as several private industry participants. ...
1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
Four aircraft carriers, Principe-de-Asturias, USS Wasp, USS Forrestal and HMS Invincible (front-to-back), showing the difference in size between a supercarrier, light V/STOL carriers, and an amphibious carrier. ...
German UC-1 class World War I submarine A model of Günther Priens Unterseeboot 47 (U-47), German WWII Type VII diesel-electric hunter Typhoon class nuclear ballistic missile submarine USS Virginia, a Virginia-class nuclear attack (SSN) submarine A submarine is a specialized watercraft that can operate...
For the particle accelerator, see Superconducting Supercollider. ...
A LASER (acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) is an optical source that emits photons in a coherent beam. ...
For reference, about 10,000 100-watt lightbulbs or 5,000 computer systems would be needed to draw 1 megawatt. Also, 1 MW equals approximately 1341 horsepower. Modern high-powered diesel-electric railroad locomotives typically have a peak power output of 3–5 MW, whereas a typical modern nuclear power plant produces on the order of 500–2000 MW peak output. The horsepower (hp) is the name of several non-metric units of power. ...
A number of vehicles use a diesel-electric powerplant for providing locomotion. ...
A locomotive (from Latin loco motivus) is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train, and has no payload capacity of its own; its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks. ...
A nuclear power station. ...
Gigawatt (109 watt) A fan-created Flux Capacitor The flux capacitor is the fictional core component of Doctor Emmett Browns time traveling De Lorean DMC-12 in the 1985 movie Back to the Future, its two sequels, and the animated series. ...
Back to the Future is an American science fiction/comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis and released in 1985. ...
Founded in 1961, Manitoba Hydro is the electric power and natural gas utility in the province of Manitoba, Canada. ...
Hydroelectric dam diagram The waters of Llyn Stwlan, the upper reservoir of the Ffestiniog Pumped-Storage Scheme in north Wales, can just be glimpsed on the right. ...
Hoover Dam from the air Hoover Dam Hoover Dam ( ), also known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete gravity-arch dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada. ...
The hydroelectric power station of Aswan Dam Aswan is a city on the first cataract of the Nile in Egypt. ...
Core of a small nuclear reactor used for research. ...
Itaipu Dam Itaipu (Portuguese: Itaipu; SAMPA [itajpu]) is a dam that includes the largest hydroelectric power plant in the world. ...
Hydroelectric dam diagram The waters of Llyn Stwlan, the upper reservoir of the Ffestiniog Pumped-Storage Scheme in north Wales, can just be glimpsed on the right. ...
1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
Three Gorges Dam, upstream side, 26 July 2004 The Three Gorges Dam (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ) spans the Yangtze River at Sandouping, Yichang, Hubei province, China. ...
Terawatt (1012 watt) - 1.7 TW - Geo: average electrical power consumption of the world in 2001
- 3.327 TW - Geo: average total (gas, electricity, etc) power consumption of the U.S. in 2001
- 13.5 TW - Geo: average total power consumption of the human world in 2001
- 44 TW - Geo: average total heat flux from earth's interior (See figure in http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/9/7/16/1)
- 75 TW - Eco: based on global net primary production (= biomass production) via photosynthesis
- 50 to 200 TW - Weather: rate of heat energy release by a hurricane
- In "Star Trek: The Next Generation", the warp core of the fictitious Enterprise-D was able to produce a maximum power output into the Terawatt range.
2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Net Primary Productivity of an ecosystem is the rate at which it accumulates biomass,excluding the energy it uses for the process of respiration. ...
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The leaf is the primary site of photosynthesis in plants. ...
This article is about weather phenomena. ...
Petawatt (1015 watt) A LASER (acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) is an optical source that emits photons in a coherent beam. ...
May 23 is the 143rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (144th in leap years). ...
1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
Aerial view of the lab and surrounding area. ...
For the album by Ocean Colour Scene, see North Atlantic Drift (album) The Gulf Stream is orange and yellow in this representation of water temperatures of the Atlantic. ...
Earth (IPA: , often referred to as the Earth, Terra, the World or Planet Earth) is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance from the Sun, and the fifth largest. ...
Layers of Atmosphere (NOAA) Air redirects here. ...
Oceans (from Okeanos in Greek) are saline waters that cover almost three quarters (71%) of the surface of the Earth. ...
World map showing the equator in red The Equator is an imaginary circle drawn around a planet (or other astronomical object) at a distance halfway between the poles. ...
Earth (IPA: , often referred to as the Earth, Terra, the World or Planet Earth) is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance from the Sun, and the fifth largest. ...
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. ...
Exawatt (1018 watt) - 1 EW - Astro: Approximate power generated between the surfaces of Jupiter and its moon Io due to Jupiter's tremendous magnetic field.
Zettawatt (1021 watt) Luminosity has different meanings in several different fields of science. ...
Wolf 359 is a star located approximately 2. ...
Yottawatt (1024 watt) - 5.3 YW - Tech: Power produced by the Tsar Bomba fusion bomb, the most powerful device ever made
- 386 YW - Astro: Luminosity of the Sun
A Tsar Bomba-type casing on display at Chelyabinsk-70 . ...
Luminosity has different meanings in several different fields of science. ...
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. ...
Greater than Yottawatt Luminosity has different meanings in several different fields of science. ...
Beta Centauri (β Cen / β Centauri), also known as Hadar or Agena, is the second brightest star in the constellation Centaurus and the eleventh brightest star in the nighttime sky. ...
Luminosity has different meanings in several different fields of science. ...
Deneb (α Cyg / α Cygni / Alpha Cygni) is the brightest star in the constellation Cygnus and one of the brightest stars in the night sky, with apparent magnitude 1. ...
Luminosity has different meanings in several different fields of science. ...
The Milky Way (a translation of the Latin Via Lactea, in turn derived from the Greek Γαλαξίας (Galaxias), sometimes referred to simply as the Galaxy), is a barred spiral galaxy of the Local Group. ...
Luminosity has different meanings in several different fields of science. ...
The image above shows the optical afterglow of gamma ray burst GRB-990123 taken on January 23, 1999. ...
The Planck energy divided by the Planck time is the Planck power, equal to about 3. ...
In physics, Planck units are physical units of measurement defined exclusively in terms of the five universal physical constants shown in the table below in such a manner that all of these physical constants take on the numerical value of one when expressed in terms of these units. ...
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