Question

When a current passes through a wire whose different parts are maintained at different temperatures, evolution or absorption of heat all along the length of wire is known as

(a) Joule effect

(b) Seebeck effect

(c) Peltier effect

(d) Thomson effect

Answer

(d) Thomson effect

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