Marcus spotted a typo in my recent post about joules and watts (in the
"watt-seconds" thread). I wrote:

ORIGINAL
1 V.A = (1 J/C).(1 A) = (1 J/A.s).(1 A) = 1 J.s = 1 W

The second last expression should have been J/s instead of J.s

CORRECTED
1 V.A = (1 J/C).(1 A) = (1 J/A.s).(1 A) = 1 J/s = 1 W

Thanks to Marcus and others who have informed me of this error.

Regards, Bill Hooper
physics professor (retired), Florida, USA

P.S. I have here reverted back to using the dot-on-the-line rather than the
more correct raised dot to show multiplication, since some of you did not
receive it in the proper form. (Many of you got the numeral 7 instead.) I
think maybe in my zeal to type in all those special raised-dot characters in
the original message, that I got carried away and put one in where it did
not belong.

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