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Faraday’s Law
The junction potential is the resistance to the flow of charge at a boundary, which can affect the way the reaction smoothly goes. This can be reduced by having just one electrolyte solution and two electrodes without a salt bridge. In such cases, there is no double line in the phase diagram because there is no actual barrier situation going on in the cell. These aren’t as helpful in producing electricity because the reaction happens too quickly.
FARADAY’S LAW
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It is possible to measure the rate at which charges are transferred in any electrical situation via an ammeter. What an ammeter measures the current in Amperes (also referred to as Amps or A). Unlike a voltmeter, ammeters have electrons pass through the devices in order to measure or “clock” them as they go by.
The total amount of electrical charge that has passed through the circuit can be calculated by the simple relationship of: charge equals current over time. This is the equivalent of Coulombs, which is determined as amp-seconds.
These types of calculations allow us to connect the reaction stoichiometry to actual electrical measurements. This leads us to Faraday’s law, which will be explained in a minute.
A voltmeter can be placed across the electrical conduit or “wire” while the ammeter is part of the circuit. Electrons technically do not pass through the voltmeter, simply continuing along the wire. The voltmeter measures the difference in electric potential between two points of a conducting wire when an electric current of one ampere dissipates one watt of power between those points.
One volt also equals to the potential difference between two parallel, infinite planes spaced 1 meter apart that create an electric field of 1 newton per coulomb. Its units are volts or amperes multiplied by the number of ohms of resistance (current times resistance). It accounts for the resistance in the wire.
Both the ammeter and the voltmeter can be said to be polarized. This means that they have negative and positive terminals marked on them because the electrons can only go
