On the Heat Evolved

by Metallic Conductors of Electricity and in the Cells of a Battery During Electrolysis by James Prescott Joule

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First edition

We see, therefore, that when a current of voltaic electricity is propagated along a metallic conductor, the heat evolved in a given time is proportional to the resistance of the conductor multiplied by the square of the electric intensity... The above law is of great importance. FIRST EDITION of the derivation of Joule's Law, one of the fundamental laws of electricity. Joule, in the paper now under consideration, was the first to

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