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Author:  Vica1ME [ Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:34 am ]
Post subject:  Incident Energy

We express available incident energy in calories/square-cm. I'm a bit
confused about the square-cm. I know how to convert watt-seconds to
joules to calories of heat. How does the square-cm factor into the
equation?

Author:  Zog [ Fri Feb 27, 2009 9:47 am ]
Post subject: 

Vica1ME wrote:
We express available incident energy in calories/square-cm. I'm a bit
confused about the square-cm. I know how to convert watt-seconds to
joules to calories of heat. How does the square-cm factor into the
equation?


Think of Watt-seconds as energy released, when you talk about J or Cal/cm2 it is refering to that heat on a recieving surface, so to measure that you need to define the area of the recieving surface.

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