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Why should any unit be used instead of the watt (W) as a power unit?
I am taking a course on AC circuits and so far I have seen that for the different types of power (read real, reactive and complex) different units are used.
For the real power, which is power in fact ...
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Why is current (and not charge) an SI base unit?
Recently I've been wondering why the Ampere is an SI base unit and not the Coulomb (which is derived). I read this answer http://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/23456/16834 , but I'm not sure I'm ...
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Confusion between MW and MWh
A 1MW power plant producing power constantly for 24 hours will produce 24 MWh a day. Is that right?
If it is, I don't understand when it says, in ...
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What does BSC SQ mean?
I'm reading this DAC datasheet. The last page (p. 32) gives certain of the chip's dimensions, some in units of "BSC SQ".
What does BSC SQ mean? Is it standard to express sizes in BSC SQ?
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Units of noise spectral density
I'm reading the datasheet of a DAC (see page 6), and the "Output Noise Spectral Density" has units V / Hz^(1/2).
The Wikipedia article on noise spectral density ...
