Electricity
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Introduction
100

Ohm's Law

What is V = IR?

100

Batteries convert blank energy into blank energy 

What is chemical energy into electrical energy? 

100

The gain of electrons 

What is reduction?

100

Two ways of converting sunlight into energy 

What is solar cells and solar thermal

100

Different types of spectra (name at least two)

What is continuous, absorption and emission, reflectance, and / or transmission spectra

200

Equivalent to 1 coulomb of charge passing per second

What is an Amp?

200

Fuel cells combine these two gases to produce electricity

What is oxygen and hydrogen

200

Electrons flow from the blank to the blank

What is the anode to the cathode?

200

The 1921 Noble Prize in Physics was awarded to blank for their work on the blank blank  

Who is Albert Einstein and what is photoelectric effect

200

SEM involves using blank instead of light

What is electrons?

300

Capacitance blanks charge and energy in an electric field 

What is stores?

300

Names of the two half-reactions that occur in a water electrolyzer

What is the hydrogen evolution reaction and oxygen evolution reaction

300

Major differences between an electrolytic cell and galvanic cell

What is electrolytic cells have non-spontaneous reactions and require electrical input, and galvanic cells have spontaneous reactions that produce electrical output? (can be phrased differently in their answer)

300

For a material like copper, the blank band and blank band overlap 

What is conduction band and valance band?

300

On an infrared spectrum, the x-axis is blank and the y-axis is blank

What is wavenumber and absorbance

400
Descriptions of voltage, current, and resistance in the Water Analogy 

What is height of water in the tank (voltage), rate of water flow through the pipe (current), and how narrow the pipe is (resistance)?

400

The CO2 reduction reaction can transform CO2 into blank

The nitrate reduction reaction can transform nitrate into blank 

What is alcohols / hydrocarbons and ammonia

400

For a lemon battery that uses Zn and Cu electrodes, what half-reaction is occurring at the anode? What half-reaction is occurring at the cathode? Define and write out these half-reactions (+200 points if you also write out the overall reaction) 

What is the oxidation / dissolution on the Zn anode (Zn --> Zn2+ + 2e-and reduction / hydrogen evolution on the Cu cathode (2H+ + 2e- --> H2)?

Bonus: Zn + 2H+ --> Zn2+ + H2

400

Sketch an IV curve (Diode curve), including labels for the x-axis and y-axis 

Check their sketch :) 

400

Beer Lambert's law give us a relationship between the blank of our solution to the blank (+200 bonus points if you also write out the equation)

What is the concentration of our solution to the adsorption

Bonus: A = ε c l 

500

Ohm in SI units

What is (kg*m2)/(s3*A2)

500

The electrocatalyst that Prof. Jaramillo studied during his PhD and for what electrochemical reaction 

What is molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and the hydrogen evolution reaction

500

To form ethylene, CO2 can be reduced as follows:
2CO2 + 12H+ + 12e- --> C2H5OH + 3H2O

How would you re-write this chemical reaction if we wanted to form methanol (CH₃OH) instead? 

What is CO₂ + 6H⁺ + 6e⁻ → CH₃OH + H₂O?

500
Write out the Energy of Light equation, with each variable's name defined (+300 bonus points if you include the units of each!)

What is E = (hc)/lambda?

E = photon's energy (J OR kg*m2*s-2)

h = planck's constant, 6.626E-34 (J*s OR J*Hz-1 OR OR m2kgs-1)

c = speed of light in vacuum, 2.99E8 (m/s)

lambda = photon's wavelength (m)


500

Define DRIFTS

What is Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy?

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