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The joule is the unit of energy, being the amount of work done by 1 watt in 1 second. 4.2 Joules are equivalent to 1 calorie of heat. The unit is named after English physicist James Prescott Joule, best known for discovering the law which states how much heat is produced in a conductor by the passage of an electric current.