Best Practice Guide

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Best Practice Guide Glossary

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JOULEReturn to list of terms

A unit of work or energy equal to the amount of work done when the point of application of force of 1 Newton is displaced 1 meter in the direction of the force. It takes 1,055 joules to equal a British thermal unit. It takes about 1 million joules to make a pot of coffee.

Source: California Energy Commission