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0 Introduction
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The amount of heat produced each second in a conductor by a current of
electricity is proportional to the resistance of the conductor and to the square of the
current.
Objective
The purpose of this experiment is to find the ratio between the mechanical
unit and the heat unit of energy by using an electric current as a current and
equating supplied by the current, expressed in joules, to the same energy
expressed in calories.
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3 Materials / Equipments
1. The main error in the experiment is the reading of the voltmeter. This is
because there is an inaccurate reading the calibration of the said device.
Another thing is the power supply, the power supply sometimes shutdown
another reason why we fail to record the correctness of the data we are
experimenting.
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Conclusion
4 Joule's laws are a pair of laws concerning the heat produced by a current
and the energy dependence of an ideal gas to that of pressure, volume, and
temperature, respectively. Joule's first law, also known as the Joule effect, is a
physical law expressing the relationship between the heat generated by the current
flowing through a conductor. It is named for James Prescott Joule who studied the
phenomenon in the 1840s. It is expressed as:
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Joule's second law states that the internal energy of an ideal gas is
independent of its volume and pressure, depending only on its temperature.
8 Reference
9 Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights
reserved.
10 http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/J/AE_Joules_law.html