This document provides information about key terms related to batteries, including electrodes, electrolytes, voltage, and potential difference. It explains that electrodes are the metal or carbon elements that react with an electrolyte, usually a liquid acid or base, to produce voltage. A wet cell battery requires a strong acid or base electrolyte, while a dry cell uses a dry paste electrolyte. The document is intended to help students better understand how electricity is created in wet and dry cell batteries through vocabulary terms and by identifying the necessary parts of each type of battery.
8. Potential Difference
The amount of energy per unit
charge needed to move a charged
particle from a reference point to a
designated point in a static electric
field; voltage.
12. Chemical Wet Cell
Wet cells are
batteries that require
a strong acid or base
solution to react with
the carbon and
metal electrodes to
create voltage
13. Chemical (Dry) Cell
A dry cell uses a dry
paste electrolyte to
react with the metal
and carbon
electrodes to
produce electricity.
24. Birth
Volta was born in Como, a town in present-
day northern Italy (near the Swiss border)
on February 18, 1745
25. Life
In 1774, he became a professor of physics at
the Royal School in Como.
A year later, he improved and popularized
the electrophorus, a device that produced
static electricity.
26. Contributions to Science
His promotion of it was so extensive that he
is often credited with its invention, even
though a machine operating on the same
principle was described in 1762 by the
Swedish experimenter
27. Contributions to Science
He discovered methane after reading a
paper by Benjamin Franklin of America on
"flammable air."
28. Contributions to Science
Volta searched for it carefully in Italy and in
November, 1776, he found methane at Lake
Maggiore.
By 1778 he managed to isolate methane
29. Contributions to Science
He invented the
voltaic pile, an
early electric
battery, which
produced a
steady electric
current
30. Death
Volta retired in 1819 to his estate in frazione
of Como, Italy, now named "Camnago
Volta" in his honor. He died there on March
5, 1827
31. Honors
The word “Volt” a measurement of
potential difference and the word
“Voltage” come from his name
Modern day honors go to him for
being the father of the electric
automobile.
32. Honors
Toyota furnished the electric hybrid
engine to Italian design house
Giugiaro to build the Toyota Volta in
2003.
33. Honors
Later on Chevrolet, in 2011, was only
able to use the name "Volt" to honor
one of the world's most ingenious
inventors