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  2. Joule - Wikipedia

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    The amount of electricity required to run a 1 W device for 1 s. The energy required to accelerate a 1 kg mass at 1 m/s 2 through a distance of 1 m. The kinetic energy of a 2 kg mass travelling at 1 m/s, or a 1 kg mass travelling at 1.41 m/s. The energy required to lift an apple up 1 m, assuming the apple has a mass of 101.97 g.

  3. Units of energy - Wikipedia

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    The British imperial units and U.S. customary units for both energy and work include the foot-pound force (1.3558 J), the British thermal unit (BTU) which has various values in the region of 1055 J, the horsepower-hour (2.6845 MJ), and the gasoline gallon equivalent (about 120 MJ). Log-base-10 of the ratios between various measures of energy

  4. Orders of magnitude (energy) - Wikipedia

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    1.2×10 22 J Seismic energy of a magnitude 11 earthquake on Earth (M 11) [224] 1.5×10 22 J: Total energy from the Sun that strikes the face of the Earth each day [189] [225] 1.94×10 22 J Impact event that formed the Siljan Ring, the largest impact structure in Europe [226] 2.4×10 22 J: Estimated energy contained in the world's coal reserves ...

  5. Energy - Wikipedia

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    However, since is extremely large relative to ordinary human scales, the conversion of an everyday amount of rest mass (for example, 1 kg) from rest energy to other forms of energy (such as kinetic energy, thermal energy, or the radiant energy carried by light and other radiation) can liberate tremendous amounts of energy (~ 9 × 10 16 joules ...

  6. First law of thermodynamics - Wikipedia

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    The component of total energy transfer that accompanies the transfer of vapor into the surrounding subsystem is customarily called 'latent heat of evaporation', but this use of the word heat is a quirk of customary historical language, not in strict compliance with the thermodynamic definition of transfer of energy as heat. In this example ...

  7. Electric potential energy - Wikipedia

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    The SI unit of electric potential energy is joule (named after the English physicist James Prescott Joule). In the CGS system the erg is the unit of energy, being equal to 10 −7 Joules. Also electronvolts may be used, 1 eV = 1.602×10 −19 Joules.

  8. Joule heating - Wikipedia

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    Joule heating (also known as resistive, resistance, or Ohmic heating) is the process by which the passage of an electric current through a conductor produces heat.. Joule's first law (also just Joule's law), also known in countries of the former USSR as the Joule–Lenz law, [1] states that the power of heating generated by an electrical conductor equals the product of its resistance and the ...

  9. Poynting vector - Wikipedia

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    If electromagnetic energy is not gained from or lost to other forms of energy within some region (e.g., mechanical energy, or heat), then electromagnetic energy is locally conserved within that region, yielding a continuity equation as a special case of Poynting's theorem: = where is the energy density of the electromagnetic field. This ...