i have a hardware setup that provides me the power consumed in watts per second. how do I find out the total power consumed per hour using this data I'm getting every second
Multiply by 3600.
Or do you mean you have data every second that tells you the power consumed in that second? If so then take that reading every second and add to the previous readings to give a cumulative total.
Power is the rate of energy movement/conversion.
So you want the total energy consumed per hour from the power (which is in watts, not watts per second).
Sum the power every second to get cumulative energy, if the power fluctuates, or multiply by 3600 seconds
if the power is constant.
power is measured in watts
energy is measured in joules
A watt is exactly the same as joule/second.
A joule is exactly the same as a watt-second (product of power and time).