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How did James Joule determine how much work is equivalent to how much heat?
 a. By attaching a team of horses to cannon-boring equipment.
  b. By repeating Rumford's experiments but measuring the amount of heat created.
  c. By defining one horsepower as the rate that a very strong horse does work.
  d. By creating a system where he could change the heat either with work or with external heat sources.
  e. By heating a gram of water by one degree.

Question 2

The study of heat and heat transfer is called:
 a. thermionics.
  b. high-energy physics.
  c. caloric chemistry.
  d. energetics.
  e. thermodynamics.



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