Highschool Physics
basic terms on heating and chemical effects
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- Faraday's First Law
- mass of an element deposited or liberated during electrolysis is proportional to the quantity of charge that passes
- coulombmeter
- measures number of coulombs of electric charge
- emf
- electron transfer reactions that are spontaneous can be a source of
- electrochemical cell
- spontaneous electron-transfer reaction occurs
- electroplating
- electrolytic deposition of one metal on the surface of another
- electrolytic cell
- arrangement in which a forced electron-transfer reaction occurs
- chemical equivalent
- ratio of gram-atomic weight to ionic charge
- joule's law
- heat developed in a conductor is directly proportional to resistance of conductor, square of current and time the current is maintained
- Faraday
- formulated the laws of electrolysis and for whom the unit of electric capacitance is named
- electric power
- the rate at which electric energy is delivered to the circuit
- watt
- unit of power
- spontaneous reaction
- involves the transfer of electrons from one reactant to the other
- electrochemical cell
- a cell in which chemical energy is converted to electric energy by a spontaneous electron-transfer reaction
- Faraday's Second Law
- mass of an element deposited or liberated during electrolysis is proportional to the chemical equivalent of the element