James Prescott Joule FRS FRSE (/dʒuːl/; 24 December 1818 – 11 October 1889) was an English physicist, mathematician and brewer, born in Salford, Lancashire...
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physicist James Prescott Joule (1818–1889). In terms of SI base units and in terms of SI derived units with special names, the joule is defined as One joule is...
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In thermodynamics, the Joule–Thomson effect (also known as the Joule–Kelvin effect or Kelvin–Joule effect) describes the temperature change of a real...
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conductor produces heat. Joule's first law (also just Joule's law), also known in countries of the former USSR as the Joule–Lenz law, states that the...
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was advanced by the successive labours of John Herapath, John James Waterston, James Joule, and particularly Rudolf Clausius, to such an extent as to put...
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(surname) James Prescott Joule (1818–1889), English physicist and namesake of the term joule 12759 Joule, an asteroid Joule (crater), on the Moon Joule Assets...
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Joule effect and Joule's law are any of several different physical effects discovered or characterized by English physicist James Prescott Joule. These...
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(United Kingdom). In 2021, he was awarded the Institute of Physics's James Joule Medal and Prize for "distinguished contributions to the development of...
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of intermolecular forces. This type of expansion is named after James Prescott Joule who used this expansion, in 1845, in his study for the mechanical...
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its saturation value, λ. The effect was first identified in 1842 by James Joule when observing a sample of iron. Magnetostriction applies to magnetic...
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University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-08928-2. Donald S. L. Cardwell, James Joule: A Biography, Manchester University Press - 1989, page 18 Wachter, Armin;...
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discovery in 1842 of the mechanical equivalent of heat was attributed to James Joule in the following year. Mayer was born on 25 November 1814 in Heilbronn...
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thermodynamics was coined by James Joule in 1858 to designate the science of relations between heat and power, however, Joule never used that term, but used...
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The Gough–Joule effect (a.k.a. Gow–Joule effect) is originally the tendency of elastomers to contract when heated if they are under tension. Elastomers...
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Watt (redirect from Joule per second)
(SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3. It is used to quantify the rate of energy transfer. The watt is named in honor of James Watt (1736–1819)...
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Joule is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Barry Joule (born 1954/55), Canadian writer James Prescott Joule (1818–1889), physicist and...
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theorized further on the mechanical energy loss views of Sadi Carnot (1824), James Joule (1843) and Rudolf Clausius (1850). Thomson's views were then elaborated...
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the time of the 1842–1845 work of James Prescott Joule, measuring the mechanical equivalent of heat. In 1845, Joule published a paper entitled The Mechanical...
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to Science, to Education and to Research", and he also received the James Joule Medal and Prize and IOM3's Platinum Medal, among other awards. Sembukuttiarachilage...
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Heaviside. The notion of "magnetic resistance" was first mentioned by James Joule in 1840. The idea for a magnetic flux law, similar to Ohm's law for closed...
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Faraday, Rolla C. Carpenter, Willis Carrier, Edwin Ruud, Reuben Trane, James Joule, William Rankine, Sadi Carnot, Alice Parker and many others. Multiple...
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Joules is a British clothing company which sells clothing and homeware products inspired by British country lifestyles. Its founder Tom Joule described...
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Institute of Physics Awards (redirect from Institute of Physics James Clerk Maxwell Medal and Prize)
Prize is awarded for medical physics The James Joule Medal and Prize is awarded for applied physics The James Clerk Maxwell Medal and Prize is awarded...
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Mechanical equivalent of heat (redirect from Joule's equivalent)
the 19th century. Its independent and simultaneous discovery by James Prescott Joule and by Julius Robert von Mayer led to a priority dispute. Benjamin...
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law of thermodynamics, deduced from the heat-friction experiments of James Joule in 1843, expresses the concept of energy and its conservation in all...
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liquefy all gases. A number of scientists including Michael Faraday, James Joule, and William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) did experiments in this area. In 1886...
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of moving force; the paper strongly influences Dalton and his pupil, James Joule 1819 – Pierre Louis Dulong and Alexis Thérèse Petit give the Dulong-Petit...
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more complicated, they may embed themselves in history. Figures like James Joule and Sadi Carnot represent an important step to introduce the systems...
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The James Joule Medal and Prize is awarded by the Institute of Physics. It was established in 2008, and was named in honour of James Prescott Joule, British...
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thermodynamic internal energy pertains only when such motions have ceased. James Joule studied the relationship between heat, work, and temperature. He observed...
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