power
Physics
(noun)
A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy.
Physiology
(noun)
A measure of force x velocity, a measurable output for muscle contraction
Sociology
(noun)
The ability to get one's way even in the face of opposition to one's goals.
Management
(noun)
The ability to influence the behavior of others, with or without resistance.
Examples of power in the following topics:
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Power
- Legitimate power, power given to individuals willingly by others, is called "authority;" illegitimate power, power taken by force or the threat of force, is called "coercion. " In the corporate environment, power is often expressed as upward or downward.
- Power can be seen as evil or unjust, but the exercise of power is accepted as endemic to humans as social beings.
- Because power operates both relationally and reciprocally, sociologists speak of the balance of power between parties to a relationship.
- All parties to all relationships have some power.
- Compare the positives and negatives associated with the use of power and how power operates in society
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Power
- Typically, the employer (or boss) has more power.
- By comparison, the employee has less power.
- Power can be seen as evil or unjust, but the exercise of power is accepted as endemic to humans as social beings.
- Thus power has a connotation of unilateralism.
- In one example, more powerful people turned off an irritatingly close fan twice as much as less powerful people.
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Sources of Power
- Power is the ability to get things done.
- Although people sometimes regard power as evil or corrupt, power is a fact of organizational life and in itself is neither good nor bad.
- Power comes from several sources, each of which has different effects on the targets of that power.
- Also called "positional power," this is the power individuals have from their role and status within an organization.
- Coercive power relies on fear to induce compliance.
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Napoleon's Rise to Power
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The Balance of Power
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Hitler's Rise to Power
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Inherent Powers
- Inherent powers are assumed powers of the president not specifically listed in the Constitution.
- Inherent powers are those powers that a sovereign state holds.
- In other words, Inherent powers are assumed powers of the president not specifically listed in the Constitution.
- Inherent powers come from the president's role as chief executive.
- It says all executive power is vested in the president.
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What is Power?
- In physics, power is the rate of doing work—the amount of energy consumed per unit time.
- In physics, power is the rate of doing work.
- Power implies that energy is transferred, perhaps changing form.
- A coal-fired power plant may produce 1,000 megawatts; 1 megawatt (MW) is 106 W of electric power.
- Tremendous amounts of electric power are generated by coal-fired power plants such as this one in China, but an even larger amount of power goes into heat transfer to the surroundings.
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Expressing Functions as Power Functions
- A power function is a function of the form $f(x) = cx^r$ where $c$ and $r$ are constant real numbers.
- A power function is a function of the form $f(x) = cx^r$ where $c$ and $r$ are constant real numbers.
- Polynomials are made of power functions.
- Since all infinitely differentiable functions can be represented in power series, any infinitely differentiable function can be represented as a sum of many power functions (of integer exponents).
- Power functions are a special case of power law relationships, which appear throughout mathematics and statistics.
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Delegated Powers
- The delegated powers are a list of items found in the U.S.
- Almost all presidential powers rely on what Congress does or does not do.
- And many presidential powers are delegated powers that Congress has accorded presidents to exercise on its behalf and that it can cut back or rescind.
- The delegated powers, also called enumerated powers, are a list of items found in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S.
- John Marshall's writing about enumerated powers in McCullogh v.