mechanical equivalent of heat
physics
Also known as: Joule’s equivalent
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work of Joule
- In James Prescott Joule
…unit of heat, called the mechanical equivalent of heat. He used four increasingly accurate methods of determining this value. By using different materials, he also established that heat was a form of energy regardless of the substance that was heated. In 1852 Joule and William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) discovered…
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