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Treballs Finals de Grau de Física, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Any: 2015, Tutor: Enric Pérez Canals

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We present the result of the historical analysis of Joule's paper "The mechanical equivalent of heat" (1849). We give a brief but close examination of his measurements of the mechanical value of a calorie, as well as their in
uence in the birth of thermodynamics.