joule

File:Definición del Joule.svg

Intuitive representation of the joule as the work of a motive force

General information
Unit system| SI
Unit of| energy
Symbol| J
Named after| James Prescott Joule
Conversions
1 J in ...| ... is equal to ...
SI base units|  kg⋅m2⋅s−2
CGS units|  1×107 erg
watt-seconds|  1 W⋅s
kilowatt-hours|  ≈2.78×10−7 kW⋅h
kilocalories (thermochemical)|  2.390×10−4 kcalth
BTUs|  9.48×10−4 BTU
electronvolts|  ≈6.24×1018 eV

The joule (/dʒuːl/ JOOL, or /dʒaʊl/ JOWL; symbol: J) is the unit of energy in the International System of Units (SI).[1] In terms of SI base units, one joule corresponds to one kilogram-metre squared per second squared (1 J = 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−2). One joule is equal to the amount of work done when a force of one newton displaces a body through a distance of one metre in the direction of that force. It is also the energy dissipated as heat when an electric current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second. It is named after the English physicist James Prescott Joule (1818–1889).[2][3][4]

## Contents

* 1 Definition
* 2 History
* 3 Practical examples
* 4 Multiples
* 5 Conversions
* 6 Newton-metre and torque
* 7 Watt-second
* 8 References
* 9 External links

## Definition

According to the International Bureau of Weights and Measures the joule is defined as "the work done when the point of application of 1 MKS unit of force [newton] moves a distance of 1 metre in the direction of the force."[5]

In terms of SI base units and in terms of SI derived units with special names, the joule is defined as[6]

J=kg⋅m2⋅s−2=N⋅m=Pa⋅m3=W⋅s=C⋅V

|  | Symbol  | Name

|

J  | joule
kg  | kilogram
m  | metre
s  | second
N  | newton
Pa  | pascal
W  | watt
C  | coulomb
V  | volt

One joule is also equivalent to any of the following:[7]

* The work required to move an electric charge of one coulomb through an electrical potential difference of one volt, or one coulomb-volt (C⋅V). This relationship can be used to define the volt.
* The work required to produce one watt of power for one second, or one watt-second (W⋅s) (compare kilowatt-hour, which is 3.6 megajoules). This relationship can be used to define the watt.

The joule is named after James Prescott Joule. As with every SI unit named for a person, its symbol starts with an upper case letter (J), but when written in full it follows the rules for capitalisation of a common noun; i.e., "joule" becomes capitalised at the beginning of a sentence and in titles, but is otherwise in lower case.[8]

## History

File:Sir William Siemens by Rudolph Lehmann.jpg

In an 1882 British Science Association meeting, Chairman Siemens (left) proposed naming the unit after James Prescott Joule (right).

The CGS system had been declared official in 1881, at the first International Electrical Congress. The erg was adopted as its unit of energy in 1882. Wilhelm Siemens, in his inauguration speech as chairman of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (23 August 1882) first proposed the joule as unit of heat, to be derived from the electromagnetic units ampere and ohm, in cgs units equivalent to 107 erg. The naming of the unit in honour of James Prescott Joule (1818–1889), at the time retired and aged 63, followed the recommendation of Siemens:

> Such a heat unit, if found acceptable, might with great propriety, I think, be called the Joule, after the man who has done so much to develop the dynamical theory of heat.[9]

At the second International Electrical Congress, on 31 August 1889, the joule was officially adopted alongside the watt and the quadrant (later renamed to henry).[10] Joule died in the same year, on 11 October 1889. At the fourth congress (1893), the "international ampere" and "international ohm" were defined, with slight changes in the specifications for their measurement, with the "international joule" being the unit derived from them.[11]

In 1935, the International Electrotechnical Commission (as the successor organisation of the International Electrical Congress) adopted the "Giorgi system", which by virtue of assuming a defined value for the magnetic constant also implied a redefinition of the joule. The Giorgi system was approved by the International Committee for Weights and Measures in 1946. The joule was now no longer defined based on electromagnetic unit, but instead as the unit of work performed by one unit of force (at the time not yet named newton) over the distance of 1 metre. The joule was explicitly intended as the unit of energy to be used in both electromagnetic and mechanical contexts.[12] The ratification of the definition at the ninth General Conference on Weights and Measures, in 1948, added the specification that the joule was also to be preferred as the unit of heat in the context of calorimetry, thereby officially deprecating the use of the calorie.[13] This is the definition declared in the modern International System of Units in 1960.[14]

The definition of the joule as J = kg⋅m2⋅s−2 has remained unchanged since 1946, but the joule as a derived unit has inherited changes in the definitions of the second (in 1960 and 1967), the metre (in 1983) and the kilogram (in 2019).[15]

## Practical examples

One joule represents (approximately):

* The typical energy released as heat by a person at rest every 1/60 s (~16.6667 ms, basal metabolic rate); about 5,000 kJ (1,200 kcal) / day.
* 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/s2 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.
* The heat required to raise the temperature of 0.239 g of water from 0 °C to 1 °C.[16]
* The kinetic energy of a 50 kg human moving very slowly (0.2 m/s or 0.72 km/h).
* The kinetic energy of a 56 g tennis ball moving at 6 m/s (22 km/h).[17]
* The food energy (kcal) in slightly more than half of an ordinary-sized sugar crystal (0.102 mg/crystal).

## Multiples

For additional examples, see Orders of magnitude (energy).

SI multiples of joule (J)  Submultiples  |  | Multiples

|
|

Value  | SI symbol  | Name  | Value  | SI symbol  | Name
10−1 J  | dJ  | decijoule  | 101 J  | daJ  | decajoule
10−2 J  | cJ  | centijoule  | 102 J  | hJ  | hectojoule
10−3 J  | mJ | millijoule | 103 J  | kJ | kilojoule
10−6 J  | µJ | microjoule | 106 J  | MJ | megajoule
10−9 J  | nJ | nanojoule | 109 J  | GJ | gigajoule
10−12 J  | pJ | picojoule | 1012 J  | TJ | terajoule
10−15 J  | fJ  | femtojoule  | 1015 J  | PJ  | petajoule
10−18 J  | aJ  | attojoule  | 1018 J  | EJ  | exajoule
10−21 J  | zJ  | zeptojoule  | 1021 J  | ZJ  | zettajoule
10−24 J  | yJ  | yoctojoule  | 1024 J  | YJ  | yottajoule
Common multiples are in bold face

zeptojoule
160 zeptojoules is about 1 electronvolt.

The minimal energy needed to change a bit of data in computation at around room temperature – approximately 2.75 zJ – is given by the Landauer limit.
nanojoule
160 nanojoules is about the kinetic energy of a flying mosquito.[18]
microjoule
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produces collisions of the microjoule order (7 TeV) per particle.
kilojoule
Nutritional food labels in most countries express energy in kilojoules (kJ).[19]

One square metre of the Earth receives about 1.4 kilojoules of solar radiation every second in full daylight.[20] A human in a sprint has approximately 3 kJ of kinetic energy,[21] while a cheetah in a 122 km/h (76 mph) sprint has approximately 20 kJ.[22] One watt-hour, of electricity or any other form of energy, is 3.6 kJ.
megajoule
The megajoule is approximately the kinetic energy of a one megagram (tonne) vehicle moving at 161 km/h (100 mph).

The energy required to heat 10 L of liquid water at constant pressure from 0 °C (32 °F) to 100 °C (212 °F) is approximately 4.2 MJ.

One kilowatt-hour, of electricity or any other form of energy, is 3.6 MJ.
gigajoule
6 gigajoules is about the chemical energy of combusting 1 barrel (159 L) of petroleum.[23] 2 GJ is about the Planck energy unit. One megawatt-hour, of electricity or any other form of energy, is 3.6 GJ.
terajoule
The terajoule is about 0.278 GWh (which is often used in energy tables). About 63 TJ of energy was released by Little Boy.[24] The International Space Station, with a mass of approximately 450 megagrams and orbital velocity of 7700 m/s,[25] has a kinetic energy of roughly 13 TJ. In 2017, Hurricane Irma was estimated to have a peak wind energy of 112 TJ.[26][27] One gigawatt-hour, of electricity or any other form of energy, is 3.6 TJ.
petajoule
210 petajoules is about 50 megatons of TNT, which is the amount of energy released by the Tsar Bomba, the largest man-made explosion ever. One terawatt-hour, of electricity or any other form of energy, is 3.6 PJ.
exajoule
The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan had 1.41 EJ of energy according to its rating of 9.0 on the moment magnitude scale. Yearly U.S. energy consumption amounts to roughly 94 EJ, and the world final energy consumption was 439 EJ in 2021.[28] One petawatt-hour of electricity, or any other form of energy, is 3.6 EJ.
zettajoule
The zettajoule is somewhat more than the amount of energy required to heat the Baltic Sea by 1 °C, assuming properties similar to those of pure water.[29] Human annual world energy consumption is approximately 0.5 ZJ. The energy to raise the temperature of Earth's atmosphere 1 °C is approximately 2.2 ZJ.
yottajoule
The yottajoule is a little less than the amount of energy required to heat the Indian Ocean by 1 °C, assuming properties similar to those of pure water.[29] The thermal output of the Sun is approximately 400 YJ per second.[30]

## Conversions

1 joule is equal to (approximately unless otherwise stated):

* 1.0×107 erg (exactly)
* 6.24151×1018 eV
* 9.47817×10−4 BTU
* 0.737562 ft⋅lb (foot-pound)
* 23.7304 ft⋅pdl (foot-poundal)

Units with exact equivalents in joules include:

* 1 thermochemical calorie = 4.184 J[31]
* 1 International Table calorie = 4.1868 J[32]
* 1 W⋅h = 3,600 J; 3.6 kJ
* 1 kW⋅h = 3.6×10 ~~^~~ 6 J; 3.6 MJ
* 1 W⋅s = 1 J
* 1 ton TNT = 4.184 GJ
* 1 foe = 1044 J[33]

## Newton-metre and torque

Main article: Newton-metre

In mechanics, the concept of force (in some direction) has a close analogue in the concept of torque (about some angle):[34][35]

Linear | Angular

|

Force | Torque
Mass | Moment of inertia
Displacement  | Angle

A result of this similarity is that the SI unit for torque is the newton-metre, which works out algebraically to have the same dimensions as the joule, but they are not interchangeable. The General Conference on Weights and Measures has given the unit of energy the name joule, but has not given the unit of torque any special name, hence it is simply the newton-metre (N⋅m) – a compound name derived from its constituent parts.[36] The use of newton-metres for torque but joules for energy is helpful to avoid misunderstandings and miscommunication.[36]

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## Watt-second

A watt-second (symbol W s or W⋅s) is a derived unit of energy equivalent to the joule.[37] The watt-second is the energy equivalent to the power of one watt sustained for one second. While the watt-second is equivalent to the joule in both units and meaning, there are some contexts in which the term "watt-second" is used instead of "joule", such as in the rating of photographic electronic flash units.[38]

## References

1. ↑ International Bureau of Weights and Measures (2006), The International System of Units (SI) (8th ed.), p. 120, ISBN 92-822-2213-6, http://www.bipm.org/utils/common/pdf/si_brochure_8_en.pdf
2. ↑ American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Online Edition (2009). Houghton Mifflin Co., hosted by Yahoo! Education.
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4. ↑ McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Physics, Fifth Edition (1997). McGraw-Hill, Inc., p. 224.
5. ↑ "Resolution 2 (1946)" (in en-US). https://www.bipm.org/en/committees/ci/cipm/41-1946/resolution-2.
6. ↑ "Chapter 4: The Two Classes of SI Units and the SI Prefixes". Special Publication 811: NIST Guide to the SI. 4 March 2020. https://www.nist.gov/pml/special-publication-811/nist-guide-si-chapter-4-two-classes-si-units-and-si-prefixes.
7. ↑ Halliday, David; Resnick, Robert (1974), Fundamentals of Physics (revised ed.), New York: Wiley, pp. 516–517, ISBN 0471344311
8. ↑ "What Is a Joule? - Chemistry Definition" (in en). https://www.thoughtco.com/definition-of-joule-604543.
9. ↑ Siemens, Cal Wilhelm (August 1882). "Report of the Fifty-Second Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science". Southampton. pp. 1–33. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k781656. "The unit of heat has hitherto been taken variously as the heat required to raise a pound of water at the freezing-point through 1° Fahrenheit or Centigrade, or, again, the heat necessary to raise a kilogramme of water 1° Centigrade. The inconvenience of a unit so entirely arbitrary is sufficiently apparent to justify the introduction of one based on the electro-magnetic system, viz. the heat generated in one second by the current of an Ampère flowing through the resistance of an Ohm. In absolute measure its value is 107 C.G.S. units, and, assuming Joule's equivalent as 42,000,000, it is the heat necessary to raise 0.238 grammes of water 1° Centigrade, or, approximately, the ​1⁄1000th part of the arbitrary unit of a pound of water raised 1° Fahrenheit and the ​1⁄4000th of the kilogramme of water raised 1° Centigrade. Such a heat unit, if found acceptable, might with great propriety, I think, be called the Joule, after the man who has done so much to develop the dynamical theory of heat."
10. ↑ Pat Naughtin: A chronological history of the modern metric system, metricationmatters.com, 2009.
11. ↑ Proceedings of the International Electrical Congress. New York: American Institute of Electrical Engineers. 1894. https://archive.org/details/proceedingsinte01chicgoog.
12. ↑ CIPM, 1946, Resolution 2, Definitions of electric units. bipm.org.
13. ↑ 9th CGPM, Resolution 3: Triple point of water; thermodynamic scale with a single fixed point; unit of quantity of heat (joule)., bipm.org.
14. ↑ International Bureau of Weights and Measures (2006), The International System of Units (SI) (8th ed.), ISBN 92-822-2213-6, http://www.bipm.org/utils/common/pdf/si_brochure_8_en.pdf
15. ↑ "SI Redefinition" (in en). NIST. 11 May 2018. https://www.nist.gov/si-redefinition.
16. ↑ "Units of Heat – BTU, Calorie and Joule". http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/heat-units-d_664.html.
17. ↑ Ristinen, Robert A.; Kraushaar, Jack J. (2006). Energy and the Environment (2nd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-73989-8. https://archive.org/details/energyenvironmen00rist.
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19. ↑ "You Say Calorie, We Say Kilojoule: Who's Right?". https://www.coca-colacompany.com/au/news/you-say-calorie--we-say-kilojoule-who-s-right-.
20. ↑ "Construction of a Composite Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) Time Series from 1978 to present". http://www.pmodwrc.ch/pmod.php?topic=tsi/composite/SolarConstant.
21. ↑ ⁠1/2⁠ × 70 kg × (10 m/s)2 = 3500 J
22. ↑ ⁠1/2⁠ × 35 kg × (35 m/s)2 = 21400 J
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24. ↑ Malik, John (September 1985). "Report LA-8819: The yields of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear explosions". Los Alamos National Laboratory. http://www.mbe.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/publications/LANLHiroshimaNagasakiYields.pdf.
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31. ↑ The adoption of joules as units of energy, FAO/WHO Ad Hoc Committee of Experts on Energy and Protein, 1971. A report on the changeover from calories to joules in nutrition.
32. ↑ Feynman, Richard (1963). "Physical Units". Feynman's Lectures on Physics. http://www.numericana.com/answer/feynman.htm.
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36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 "Units with special names and symbols; units that incorporate special names and symbols". International Bureau of Weights and Measures. http://www.bipm.org/en/si/si_brochure/chapter2/2-2/2-2-2.html. "A derived unit can often be expressed in different ways by combining base units with derived units having special names. Joule, for example, may formally be written newton metre, or kilogram metre squared per second squared. This, however, is an algebraic freedom to be governed by common sense physical considerations; in a given situation some forms may be more helpful than others. In practice, with certain quantities, preference is given to the use of certain special unit names, or combinations of unit names, to facilitate the distinction between different quantities having the same dimension."
37. ↑ International Bureau of Weights and Measures (2006), The International System of Units (SI) (8th ed.), pp. 39–40, 53, ISBN 92-822-2213-6, http://www.bipm.org/utils/common/pdf/si_brochure_8_en.pdf
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