Joule heat; Joule heating
Physics term for heat generated by an electric current passing through a resistance. Also called resistive heating or ohmic heating.
ジュール熱は電流の二乗と抵抗に比例する。
Joule heat is proportional to the square of the current and the resistance.
電熱線はジュール熱を利用して発熱する。
Heating wires generate heat using Joule heating.
Named after the English physicist James Prescott Joule. The term combines his name in katakana (ジュール) with 熱 (heat).