what is the significance of joule's law of heating
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Joule's law of heating states that when a current 'i ' passes through a conductor of resistance 'r' for time 't' then the heat developed in the conductor is equal to the product of the square of the current, the resistance and time.
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Joule’s law of heating states that when a current ‘i ' passes through a conductor of resistance ‘r’ for time ‘t’ then the heat developed in the conductor is equal to the product of the square of the current, the resistance and time.
H = i 2 rt
The reason behind the heat produced is the collision of the free electrons with the lattice ions or atoms while accelerating in presence of the external electric field.
we know that
volt= work done/ total charge or v = w/q
from this we get w= vq
we know that current i = q / t
so q = it
putting this in prev equation
we get w = vit
from ohms law v = ir
putting it in prev eq we get
w = irit = i2rt joule as work is stored as heat soH = I2RT Joules