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Ideally, Yes. But in the real world there are a lot of losses associated with this such as sound, vibration, thermal loss in the wires and leads and so on. Nothing is 100% efficient.

So I am an engineering student working on co-op and I ran into a problem. I have a resistor like the image above. I placed this resistor in free space, leads in vertical position (Ambient: 296K ) and I placed 10W of electrical power into it. What I need to find is the thermal coefficient...