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Chapter 9 NCERT Class 9 Science SOLUTIONS

1. What is power?

Question:

What is power?

Answer:

The rate of doing work or the rate of conversion of energy is called power.

Power = Work/Time

where, P = Power,

W = Work, t = time

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