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Joule's LawJoule's law (due to James Prescott Joule) expresses the amount of heat generated by an electrical resistor, and is expressed by the relation -
by current flowing through a resistor with resistance for a time , and is the heat generated or -
where is the constant of proportionality, dependent on the units used to express , and . If amperes, ohms, and seconds are used, and the result expressed in joules, it is simply 1. -
See also: Peltier-Seebeck effect
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