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Wed, 24 March 2010

Mostly Trivial 184 Electrifying Personalities [trivia repost]

Mostly Trivial 184

Electrifying

Personalities

[trivia]

repost

Do you know what a Joule is?

James Prescott Joule was born in Manchester, England, in 1818. Like Ampere, he was home schooled and was sent to university at Cambridge when he was sixteen.

The Industrial Revolution was in full swing at this time, and one of Joule's ambitions was to replace steam-driven engines with electric motors, so his first investigations were into the production of heat.

Since Joule's research was self-funded, he was free to pursue the areas he wished and this resulted in him establishing the equivalence between heat and mechanical work as well as the cooling effect of rapidly expanded gas (the latter of which is used in refrigeration systems). Joule can also be considered as an inventor; among his inventions were arc welding and the displacement pump.

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What Do You Know , Joe?

This is the unit for current, and was named after a French mathematician who also made important contributions to chemistry.

A. Volt

B. Ampere

C. Coulomb

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