1.5 transmitting electrical energy

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  • power: the rate of doing work or transforming energy
  • kilowatt-hour: the traditional unit for electrical energy used by utility companies
  • transformer: a device that transforms the AC voltage of one circuit into a different AC voltage for another circuit using separate coils of wire wound around a common iron core
  • primary coil: the coil to which the input voltage is applied in a transformer
  • secondary coil: the coil that supplies the output voltage of a transformer