A 60 watt light bulb uses 60 watts per minute, second or hour?

Answer 1

It uses 60 watts continuously. Watts are a measure of power. When the bulb has burned for one hour, it has consumed 60 watt-hours of electricity. Likewise, when it has burned for two hours, it has consumed 120 watt-hours of electricity,

Answer 2

Watts is a power unit. It's Energy/time.

One Watt is 1 Joule/sec. So, a 60 watt bulb uses 60 joules of energy in 1 sec.

Note that sometimes power companies use watt-hour. This is a 'bastardized' unit. A watt for an hour is 3600 joules of energy. (because there's 3600 sec/hour).

Answer 3

Watts are a unit of electrical power.

Energy is measured in Watt hours or more commonly kilo watts hours (kwh)

In one hour your 60 watt light bulb uses 60 X 1 = 60 wh or 0.06 kwh

Answer 4

A watt is a unit of potential. In different words, potential in step with 2nd. A 60 watt bulb emits 60 joules of potential in step with 2nd. this might bring up a a million kilogram mass ( approximately 2.2. pounds) a top of 6 meters (approximately 7 yards) in a single 2nd. Simlarly, potential used is expressed in kilowatt hours it is 3,six hundred,000 joules.

Answer 5

Watt is a measure of power which is instantaneous. Power exerted over time is energy. Energy is measured in Joules, calories or Watt-hour (kW.h).

So a 60 W bulb consumes 60 W.h in one hour.

When you pay your electric bill, check your consumption, it is written in kW.h (kilowatts-hour, not per hour but kilowatts multiplied by hour).

Answer 6

It uses 60 watts of power. You have to multiply the power to get energy ... like watt - hours.

Answer 7

One watt is one joule (the SI unit of energy) per second.

One watt is equal to one newton meter per second.

Answer 8

Usually it means 60watt-hour = 60x3600 s Joules of energy

Answer 9

Hour.