CHEM 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Electrolytic Cell, Nernst Equation, Faraday Constant

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Gibbs free energy & electrical work: relating g and ecell. Spontaneous g < 0 (release of energy) ; and spontaneous ecell > 0 (positive potential) ; so g is proportional to -ecell. Ecell (in v) = electrical energy (in j) / charge (in c) Since ecell is measured with no current flowing (no energy loss to heat), its maximum voltage of cell, and thus, electrical energy represents maximum work possible (wmax) Voltaic cells release energy or do work on the surroundings , so wmax is negative. Maximum work done on the surroundings is equal to g. Relationship between g, wmax, and ecell: ecell = -wmax/charge = - g/charge: wmax = g = -charge*ecell, so charge is our proportionality constant. Charge = mol of electrons (z) * charge/mole of electrons (f) = zf: z = number of mol e, f = faraday constant, charge of 1 mol e-, 96485 coulombs. G = -charge (zf) * ecell g = -zf*ecell.

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