{"id":8289,"date":"2019-05-22T16:06:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/joule\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:06:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:06:05","slug":"joule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/joule\/","title":{"rendered":"Joule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An SI unit defined as the energy required equivalent to the work done when the point of application of a force of one newton moves a distance of one meter in the direction of the force. &nbsp;A formally defined conversion factor is that 4.1868 joules = one calorie. &nbsp;The term joule was devised by the British physicist <a href=\"http:\/\/library.thinkquest.org\/10170\/voca\/jouleb.htm\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/library.thinkquest.org\/10170\/voca\/jouleb.htm&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Precott Joule<\/a> (1818-1889). &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"energy\">Energy<\/a>, <a href=\"force\">Force<\/a>, <a href=\"kinetic_energy\">Kinetic energy<\/a>, <a href=\"newton\">newton<\/a>, <a href=\"si_unit\">SI unit<\/a>, <a href=\"torque\">Torque<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An SI unit defined as the energy required equivalent to the work done when the point of application of a force of one newton moves a distance of one meter in the direction of the force. &nbsp;A formally defined conversion factor is that 4.1868 joules = one calorie. &nbsp;The term joule was devised by the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/joule\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Joule&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}