James Prescott Joule

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1. When was James Prescott Joule born?December 24, 1818
2. When did James Prescott Joule die?October 11, 1889 (age 70)
3. Where was James Prescott Joule born?Salford, England
4. What is the career?Physicist, experimental scientist
5. What is the related topics?Thermodynamics, Conservation of Energy, Electromagnetism, Lord Kelvin, Physics
6. Who was James Prescott Joule?James Prescott Joule was an English scientist born in 1818 who studied how heat and motion are connected.

Caloric Theory: An obsolete scientific theory that proposed heat was a fluid substance called 'caloric'.
Mechanical Equivalent of Heat: The amount of mechanical work required to produce a unit of thermal energy.
Magnetostriction: The property of ferromagnetic materials to change their shape or dimensions when subjected to a magnetic field.
Absolute Thermodynamic Temperature Scale: A temperature scale where zero is absolute zero, the theoretical point of minimum thermal energy.