Ampere-second (Noun)
Meaning
A unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second.
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- The coulomb is the standard unit of electric charge, equivalent to one ampere-second, and is used to express the quantity of electric charge.
- A typical smartphone battery stores around 12 watt-hours of energy, which is equivalent to approximately 43,200 ampere-seconds.
- The total charge transferred during the experiment was calculated to be 10 ampere-seconds, indicating a relatively small amount of electricity.
- One ampere-second is the amount of electric charge that flows through a circuit when a current of one ampere is maintained for one second.
- The capacitor was designed to store a maximum of 500 ampere-seconds of charge, which could be released rapidly when needed.