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W⋅h/K\text{W}{\cdot}\text{h/K}

watt-hour per kelvin

Heat capacityexact by definition

The watt-hour per kelvin is exactly 3600 J/K. Building services use it because heat loads are in watts and a thermal mass expressed in W·h/K tells you directly how many hours of load the mass will absorb per degree of drift.

1 W⋅h/K\text{W}{\cdot}\text{h/K} 3,600 J/K\text{J/K}

One watt-hour per kelvin in every heat capacity unit

3,600,000millijoule per kelvin (mJ/K)
3,600joule per kelvin (J/K)
3,600joule per Celsius degree (J/°C)
860.421calorie per kelvin (cal/K)
3.6kilojoule per kelvin (kJ/K)
3.6kilojoule per Celsius degree (kJ/°C)
1.89563BTU per Fahrenheit degree (BTU/°F)
1.89563BTU per Rankine degree (BTU/°R)
1watt-hour per kelvin (W·h/K)this unit
0.860421kilocalorie per kelvin (kcal/K)
0.0036megajoule per kelvin (MJ/K)
0.001kilowatt-hour per kelvin (kW·h/K)
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