(electricity) The heat which is evolved when current flows through a medium having electrical resistance, as given by Joule's law.
Joule heat
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 | Electrical resistance |
| heat |
| James Prescott Joule (English physicist) |
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- Electrical resistance
- heat
- James Prescott Joule (English physicist)
- Julius Robert von Mayer (German physician & physicist)
- thermoelectricity (in electricity, thermodynamics)
- calorimetry (measure)
- joule (energy, work, quantity of heat)
- Entropy
- Energy and Earth
- Theory of heat
- Solid oxide electrolyser cell
- Heat generation in integrated circuits
- Mechanical equivalent of heat
- The National Engines
