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But Joule wasn’t the only one in town. Across the river in the , there was Calorie , a warm and friendly unit who spent her days heating up water. She was quite popular with the local chefs and athletes, always measuring the fuel in their food.

stepped forward, but he realized he was quite small—it took 3.6 million of him just to match one Kilowatt-hour ! energy unit

giggled, knowing she was about 4.18 times as big as a single Joule. But Joule wasn’t the only one in town

Once upon a time in the Land of Physics, there lived a hard-working fellow named . Joule was the official measure of all things energetic. Whenever a pushy character named Newton moved an object exactly one meter , Joule was there to record the effort. stepped forward, but he realized he was quite