There's not much value in switching energy supplier if you're already on the cheapest deal you can get, or if you'd have to pay exit fees to get out of your contract. Sometimes it makes financial sense, though, so it's worth doing the maths to see if it's the right move for yo...
It's a must-have for any toolbox—but there's a learning curve involved. Learn how to use a multimeter for all of your electrical testing needs.
Acceleration is much more interesting than speed and more useful if you need to get out of danger behind the wheel: it's how quickly something can speed up or slow down. Measuring acceleration is a bit more tricky than measuring speed because it involves figuring out how speed changes over ...
According to Michigan Public Service Commission Report U-17000: “Alpena Power plans to change to digital meters but does not intend to install smart meters. . . . I&M has Automated Meter Reading (AMR) at nearly all of its Michigan accounts and does not intend to replace those with sma...
How much power is required to lift a {eq}25 \ kg {/eq} box to the top of a {eq}4 {/eq} meter flight of stairs in {eq}3.5 {/eq} seconds?Power:Power in physics is defined as the rate of doing work. In equation form
they collaborated much more within the groups when they created the digital animations. There was a combination of play and signs of learning during both the creation process and in the final multimodal representations. One example is when one of the groups were to choose which background to use...
The best way to know how much energy your stuff uses is to measure it. You can do that easily with a cheap watt-hour meter, or you can do it for free by timing your electric meter. I explain all this on the page about measuring your electrical use. A shortcut, though a little le...
The effect looks something like this when we send a 100% black frame to the Epson Home Cinema 3800. The measured black brightness of the full black frame was 0.562 cd/m² on a 55" projection. As discussed previously, it's possible to get a much deeper black on a 100% black side ...
How to Choose Kitchen Appliances PlanetGreen.com: Green Appliances The second type of electric meter performs the same function, but, instead of having individual dials, it has numerals in slots on the meter face, much like an odometer in a car. This meter is read from left to right, and...
With an electromechanical analog meter, you'll find either a dial with a rotating disc in the center or a cyclometer type, which displays kilowatt hours much like an odometer on a vehicle. Note that with a dial-pointer type, adjacent pointers typically rotate in opposite directions due to th...