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    James Prescott Joule (/dʒuːl/; 24 December 1818 – 11 October 1889) was an English physicist. Joule studied the nature of heat and discovered its relationship...
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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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  • 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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  • named after James Prescott Joule and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, who discovered it in 1852. It followed upon earlier work by Joule on Joule expansion...
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    (compared to conventional heat processing) due to higher resistance. James Prescott Joule first published in December 1840, an abstract in the Proceedings...
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    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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    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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  • (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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    Joseph Black, M.D. Constable. pp. 45–46. Joule, J. P. (1884), The Scientific Paper of James Prescott Joule, The Physical Society of London, p. 274, I...
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  • unit of energy is the same as the unit of work – the joule (J), named in honour of James Prescott Joule and his experiments on the mechanical equivalent of...
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  • Society). Prominent members have included Robert Owen, John Dalton, James Prescott Joule, Sir William Fairbairn, Tom Kilburn, Peter Mark Roget, Sir Ernest...
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    Locke's description of heat was repeatedly quoted by English physicist James Prescott Joule. Also the transfer of heat was explained by the motion of particles...
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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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    Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1834. A young James Prescott Joule, who later studied and published (1843) on the nature of heat and...
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  • Prescott F. Hall, American lawyer, author and eugenicist Samuel Prescott Hildreth, American physician, scientist and historian James Prescott Joule,...
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    mechanical energy and an increase in temperature was discovered by James Prescott Joule. Many devices are used to convert mechanical energy to or from other...
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    727–845. 1879. doi:10.1098/rstl.1879.0078. ISSN 0261-0523. Memoir of James Prescott Joule. Cambridge University Press. 2011 [1892]. ISBN 978-1-108-02880-6...
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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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  • Press, Oxford, ISBN 0-19-851142-6, page 11. J. P. Joule (1884), The Scientific Paper of James Prescott Joule, The Physical Society of London, p. 274, I am...
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    measurements of μ ( t ) {\displaystyle \mu (t)} . That same year, James Prescott Joule suggested to Thomson that the true formula for Carnot's function...
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    Joule is a lunar impact crater that lies on the far side of the Moon. It is located to the north-northeast of the walled plain Mach. To the northwest...
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    Advancement of Science (BAAS), which members included James Prescott Joule, Lord Kelvin, and James Clerk Maxwell, defined several electrical metric units...
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    heating the resistor in the process. This is called Joule heating (after James Prescott Joule), also called ohmic heating or resistive heating. The...
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    volume of a gas cooled at about −273 °C would reach zero. After James Prescott Joule had determined the mechanical equivalent of heat, Lord Kelvin approached...
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  • compares various energies in joules (J), organized by order of magnitude. The joule is named after James Prescott Joule. As with every SI unit named for...
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  • 1843, James Prescott Joule independently discovered the mechanical equivalent in a series of experiments. In one of them, now called the "Joule apparatus"...
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    this was rejected by the Royal Society of England. Later works of James Prescott Joule, Rudolf Clausius and in particular Ludwig Boltzmann firmly established...
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    Cambridge, when the discovery of the structure of DNA was reported by James D. Watson and Francis Crick in February 1953. Bragg was born in Adelaide...
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    constant of motion. Hypothesized by Sadi Carnot, truth demonstrated by James Prescott Joule, proven by Emmy Noether. Blank, Steve (May 2013). "Harvard Business...
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    Fairbairn, Bt James Prescott Joule (I) Edward William Binney (I) Dr Robert Angus Smith Dr Henry Edward Schunck (I) James Prescott Joule (II) Edward William...
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