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.


d

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