The joule (/dʒuːl/ JOOL, or /dʒaʊl/ JOWL; symbol: J) is the unit of energy in the International System of Units (SI). It is equal to the amount of work...
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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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Joule FRS FRSE (/dʒuːl/; 24 December 1818 – 11 October 1889) was an English physicist, mathematician and brewer, born in Salford, Lancashire. Joule studied...
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A joule thief is a minimalist self-oscillating voltage booster that is small, low-cost, and easy to build, typically used for driving small loads, such...
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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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derived unit, the joule (J), and an SI base unit, the second (s). The joule-second is a unit of action or of angular momentum. The joule-second also appears...
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Watt (redirect from Joule per second)
power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3. It is used to quantify the rate of energy transfer...
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joule or joules in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The joule (symbol: J) is the SI derived unit of energy Joule or joules may also refer to: Joule (surname)...
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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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Newton-metre (redirect from Joule per radian)
same dimension as energy (SI unit joule), the joule is never used for expressing torque". Newton-metres and joules are dimensionally equivalent in the...
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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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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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Reginald L. "Reggie" Joule, Jr. (born July 14, 1952) is a politician in the U.S. state of Alaska. Until recently, Joule served a three-year term as mayor...
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Joule is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Cell Press. It was established in 2017 as a sister journal to Cell. The editor-in-chief...
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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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Joule is a capability-secure massively-concurrent dataflow programming language, designed for building distributed applications. It is so concurrent that...
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The Joule expansion (a subset of free expansion) is an irreversible process in thermodynamics in which a volume of gas is kept in one side of a thermally...
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Volt (redirect from Joule per coulomb)
it is the potential difference between two points that will impart one joule of energy per coulomb of charge that passes through it. It can be expressed...
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The joule per mole (symbol: J·mol−1 or J/mol) is the unit of energy per amount of substance in the International System of Units (SI), such that energy...
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Joule Unlimited, formerly known as Joule Biotechnologies, was a producer of alternative energy technologies based in Bedford, Massachusetts. The company...
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Barry Joule (born 1954/1955) is a Canadian writer, and a long-time friend of the artist Francis Bacon who died in 1992 and left a substantial amount of...
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Brayton cycle (redirect from Joule cycle)
The Brayton cycle, also known as the Joule cycle, is a thermodynamic cycle that describes the operation of certain heat engines that have air or some...
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Mechanical equivalent of heat (redirect from Joule's equivalent)
19th century. Its independent and simultaneous discovery by James Prescott Joule and by Julius Robert von Mayer led to a priority dispute. Benjamin Thompson...
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Orders of magnitude (energy) (redirect from List of energies in joules)
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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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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derived unit of energy, the joule (J), or the kilojoule (kJ) for 1000 joules. The precise equivalence between calories and joules has varied over the years...
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generators, inductors, and transformers. In ordinary conductors, they cause Joule heating, which creates light in incandescent light bulbs. Time-varying currents...
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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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terms of energy by setting the Boltzmann constant to exactly 1.380649×10−23 joules per kelvin; every 1 K change of thermodynamic temperature corresponds to...
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Joule was an electric five seat passenger car by Optimal Energy, a South African company based in Cape Town. According to the company, it was to have...
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