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1. Joule (unit)

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   The Joule ($\text{J}$) is the International System of Units (SI)/) ($\text{SI}$) derived unit of energy, work, or amount of heat. It is named after the English physicist James Prescott Joule, whose pioneering work in the 1840s established the mechanical equivalent of heat, effectively unifying the concepts of heat and mechanical energy [1]. The modern definition relates the joule directly to base $\text{SI}$…